Associations to the word «Melancholy»
Noun
- Happiness
- Pleasure
- Temper
- Expression
- Sentiment
- Weep
- Sunk
- Regret
- Quixote
- Strain
- Shade
- Affection
- Deep
- Woe
- Remembrance
- Tune
- Burton
- Grave
- Reverie
- Pathos
- Cadence
- Musing
- Wail
- Purge
- Desolation
- Anime
- Spectacle
- Visage
- Humor
- Depression
- Elegy
- Remote
- Adieu
- Grandeur
- Bough
- Enchantment
- Twilight
- Catastrophe
- Pitchfork
- Misfortune
- Antidote
- Sigh
- Lament
- Consolation
- Urn
- Saturn
- Degeneration
- Tiding
- Repose
- Emptiness
- Pill
- Perturbation
- Jealousy
- Howl
- Reminiscence
Adjective
Adverb
Pictures for the word «Melancholy»
Wiktionary
MELANCHOLY, adjective. Affected with great sadness or depression.
MELANCHOLY, noun. (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
MELANCHOLY, noun. Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Dictionary definition
MELANCHOLY, noun. A feeling of thoughtful sadness.
MELANCHOLY, noun. A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed.
MELANCHOLY, noun. A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy.
MELANCHOLY, adjective. Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth".
MELANCHOLY, adjective. Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.