ALL meanings of melancholy
mel·an·chol·y
M m - noun melancholy emotion: sadness 1
- adjective melancholy person: sad 1
- adjective melancholy atmosphere: gloomy 1
- noun melancholy A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. 1
- noun plural melancholy sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness. 1
- noun plural melancholy Archaic. the condition of having too much black bile, considered in ancient and medieval medicine to cause gloominess and depression. black bile. 1
- adjective melancholy affected with, characterized by, or showing melancholy; mournful; depressed: a melancholy mood. 1
- adjective melancholy causing melancholy or sadness; saddening: a melancholy occasion. 1
- adjective melancholy soberly thoughtful; pensive. 1
- noun plural melancholy a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression. 0
- noun melancholy (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. 0
- noun melancholy Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. 0
- adjective melancholy Affected with great sadness or depression. 0
- adjective melancholy You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness. 0
- uncountable noun melancholy Melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness which lasts for a long time and which strongly affects your behaviour and attitudes. 0
- adjective melancholy If someone feels or looks melancholy, they feel or look very sad. 0
- noun melancholy a constitutional tendency to gloominess or depression 0
- noun melancholy a sad thoughtful state of mind; pensiveness 0
- noun melancholy a gloomy character, thought to be caused by too much black bile 0
- noun melancholy one of the four bodily humours; black bile 0
- adjective melancholy characterized by, causing, or expressing sadness, dejection, etc 0
- noun melancholy black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of the body, to come from the spleen or kidneys, and to cause gloominess, irritability, or depression 0
- noun melancholy the condition of having, or the disorder supposed to result from having, too much black bile 0
- noun melancholy sadness and depression of spirits 0
- noun melancholy a tendency to be sad, gloomy, or depressed 0
- noun melancholy sad, sober musing; pensiveness 0
- adjective melancholy sad and depressed; gloomy 0
- adjective melancholy causing sadness, gloom, or depression 0
- adjective melancholy lamentable; deplorable 0
- adjective melancholy sadly or soberly musing; pensive 0
- adjective melancholy having the disorder of melancholy 0