Melancholy

What do we mean by melancholy?

Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom. noun

Pensive reflection or contemplation. noun

Black bile. noun

An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile. noun

Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected. synonym: sad. adjective

Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom. adjective

Pensive; thoughtful. adjective

Same as melancholia; in old use, insanity of any kind. noun

A gloomy state of mind, particularly when habitual or of considerable duration; depression of spirits arising from grief or natural disposition; dejection; sadness. Also, in technical use, melancholia. noun

Sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness. noun

Bitterness of feeling; ill nature. noun

Synonyms Hypochondria, gloominess, despondency. noun

Produced by melancholia or madness of any kind.

Affected by depression of spirits; depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy.

Given to contemplation; thoughtful; pensive. See I., 3.

Producing or fitted to produce sadness or gloom; sad; mournful: as, a melancholy fact; a melancholy event.

Grave or gloomy in character; suggestive of melancholy; somber.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. noun

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. noun

Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

A feeling or sense that something much better is possible, plausible, and definitely happening to most other people at that very moment. Urban Dictionary

The sense of unwanting and disbelief, with the ability to drag you further into its depths of irretrievable hell... it even has the ability to kill people, works well in poetry i find, if you are going to travel on this path, make sure you leave a realy long rope behind you... Urban Dictionary

A feeling of sadness with no actual reason Urban Dictionary

Sad, gloomy... unhappy, getting angry for little things for being sad... Urban Dictionary

A sudden hit of sadness with no actual reason. Urban Dictionary

A misspelling of meloncolly, a hybrid of a melon and a colliflower. Urban Dictionary

A cool word. Urban Dictionary

A type of fruit with a rough outer shell. Urban Dictionary

To be 'melancholy' is a brand of sadness that is over thought, prolonged and can be caused by any reason regardless of its the magnitude. It's a very personal, heavy weighing sadness. It has similar characteristics with depression however, melancholy is an insidious sadness. It's more than simple desolation or dejection, melancholy feeds on pensive self reflection in such a low state, reflecting lower and lower on itself until you can't see anything other than sadness. Urban Dictionary

Melancholy is a feeling of bitter sadness. It’s usually seen as a more in-depth emotion, with strings attached. People who suffer from depression may feel melancholy often. It can be used as an adjective as well. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to melancholy:
melancholy, melancholic, melancholia, melencoly, melancholily, melancholie.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word melancholy:
ode, sadness, loneliness, longing, mood, nightingale, nostalgia, upbeat, despair, ballad, thistle, madness, sad, melody, tone, lyrical, emotion, lonely, lyric, lyrics, happiness, romantic, poems, tunes, feeling, burton, joy, themes, beauty, poem, emotions, lover, thoughts, chorus, humor, verse, acoustic, tune, reviewer, sung, feel, moments, poetry, strings, deeply, piano, feelings, anime, autumn, fate, atmosphere, depression, dreams, departure, theme, love, narrative, pop, suicide, soul, baby, songs, emotional, poet, rhythm, folk, sense, critic, painting, suffering, song.

Words that rhyme with melancholy:
folly, jolly, holly, ali, poly, dolly, trolley, ollie, volley, molly, collie, mali, lolly, dali, duopoly, cali, bali, diwali, golly, bengali, wally, polly, raleigh, brolly, colly, bialy, squally, aalii, loblolly, mollie, somali, pauli, crawly, nepali, rawly, macaulay, kigali, solly, olly, crawley, drawly, drolly, brawley, sea holly, smalley, mccauley, mexicali, akali, border collie, prolly, internationale, brawly, poly-, scrawly, callee, jolley, lolli, pawley, holley, rolley, dollie, callie, canale, colley, rollie, fawley, dolley, ice lolly, blolly, hallie, gali, scholy, squali, vitali, cawley, sprawly, dawley, scali, walley, imperiale, smally, pauly, cardinale, half volley, hawley, murali, tea trolley, natale, hog molly, rawley, vallie, vitaly, papale, hollie, casale, macauley, kolli, solley, tallie, whally.

Adjectives that are often used to describe melancholy:
deep, profound, gentle, religious, deepest, certain, little, settled, sweet, morbid, romantic, most, black, constitutional, soft, natural, strange, pensive, pleasing, quiet, vague, habitual, gloomy, intense, green, dark, silent, extreme, poetic, wistful, sentimental, bitter, mild, hopeless, peculiar, infinite, dull, dreamy, sudden, sombre, moody, blackest, incurable, pleasant, secret, thoughtful, noble, chronic, terrible, profoundest, passionate, sad, delicious, philosophic, lovely, calm, indescribable, pastoral, mysterious, sublime, celtic, pervasive, exquisite, sullen, grave, slight, philosophical, divinest, poignant, nostalgic, overpowering, plaintive, agreeable, delicate, seated, hypochondriacal, listless, excessive, subdued, persistent, faint, characteristic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective melancholy:
smile, man, mood, eyes, event, tone, fact, thoughts, pleasure, air, truth, reflections, fate, face, spectacle, state, expression, voice, picture, story, scene, interest, occasion, reflection, news, look, satisfaction, sight, situation, tale, sound, temperament, condition, song, proof, music, aspect, end, duty, note, disposition, history, subject, intelligence, task, silence, strain, feeling, account, procession, circumstances, manner, tidings, death, prospect, affair, cast, beauty, forebodings, instance, thought, cry, accident, countenance, appearance, conclusion, example, tune, songs, figure, letter, events, feelings, catastrophe, moods, business, humour, jaques, gloom, contrast, resignation, tones, notes, grandeur.

Words that sound like melancholy:
melancholy, melancholie, melon collie, melancholies, melancholic, melancholia, melencoly, melancholiac, melancholily, molinelli, helen keller, hellen keller, malignly, melanchthon, melanie, melony, melany, melania, mancala, malakai, melani, molinari, melancholiness, melancholically, mola mola, mccolley.