melancholy
noun
[ ˈmɛlənkəli ]
• a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
• "an air of melancholy surrounded him"
Similar:
desolation,
sadness,
pensiveness,
woe,
sorrow,
melancholia,
unhappiness,
dejection,
depression,
gloom,
gloominess,
misery,
low spirits,
moroseness,
doldrums,
defeatism,
pessimism,
dejectedness,
dispiritedness,
despondency,
the dumps,
the blues,
melancholy
adjective
• having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive.
• "she felt a little melancholy"
Similar:
sad,
sorrowful,
desolate,
melancholic,
mournful,
lugubrious,
gloomy,
pensive,
despondent,
dejected,
depressed,
depressing,
down,
downhearted,
downcast,
disconsolate,
glum,
sunk in gloom,
miserable,
wretched,
dismal,
dispirited,
discouraged,
low,
in low spirits,
in the doldrums,
blue,
morose,
funereal,
woeful,
woebegone,
doleful,
wistful,
unhappy,
joyless,
heavy-hearted,
low-spirited,
sombre,
defeatist,
pessimistic,
down in the dumps,
down in the mouth,
morbid,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French melancolie, via late Latin from Greek melankholia, from melas, melan- ‘black’ + kholē ‘bile’, an excess of which was formerly believed to cause depression.
