Need another word that means the same as “melancholy”? Find 17 synonyms and 30 related words for “melancholy” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Melancholy” are: black bile, desolation, sadness, pensiveness, woe, sorrow, melancholia, melancholic, somber, sombre, sad, sorrowful, desolate, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, pensive
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “melancholy” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| black bile | A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa. |
| desolation | An event that results in total destruction. In choked desolation she watched him leave. |
| melancholia | Extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears. The haunting melancholia that dominates the album. |
| pensiveness | Deep serious thoughtfulness. |
| sadness | The state of being sad. A source of great sadness. |
| sorrow | An event or circumstance that causes sorrow. He tried to express his sorrow at her loss. |
| woe | Misery resulting from affliction. The Everton tale of woe continued. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “melancholy” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| desolate | Providing no shelter or sustenance. The desolate surface of the moon. |
| gloomy | Dark or poorly lit, especially so as to appear depressing or frightening. Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face. |
| lugubrious | Excessively mournful. His face looked even more lugubrious than usual. |
| melancholic | Suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression. His work often has a wistful or melancholic mood. |
| mournful | Feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief. Mournful news. |
| pensive | Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood. |
| sad | Of things that make you feel sad Christina Rossetti. I was sad and subdued. |
| somber | Grave or even gloomy in character. A suit of somber black. |
| sombre | Dark or dull in colour or tone. The night skies were sombre and starless. |
| sorrowful | Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss- Proverbs 14:13. She looked at him with sorrowful eyes. |
| blue | Blue color or pigment resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime. He had eyes of bright blue. |
| cheerless | Gloomy; depressing. The corridors were ill lit and cheerless. |
| contemplative | A person devoted to the contemplative life. Contemplative knowledge of God. |
| dejected | Sad and depressed; dispirited. Is dejected but trying to look cheerful. |
| depressed | (of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency. A depressed fracture of the skull. |
| depression | A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. The depression in the housing market. |
| despair | A state in which all hope is lost or absent. They moaned in despair and dismay. |
| despondency | Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless. An air of despondency. |
| despondent | Without or almost without hope. She grew more and more despondent. |
| disappointment | A person or thing that causes disappointment. To her disappointment there was no chance to talk privately with Luke. |
| dismal | Pitifully or disgracefully bad. He shuddered as he watched his team s dismal performance. |
| dreary | Depressingly dull and bleak or repetitive. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep. |
| elegiac | Verses in an elegiac metre. An elegiac lament for youthful ideals. |
| gloom | Have a dark or sombre appearance. A black yew gloom d the stagnant air. |
| grief | Trouble or annoyance. We were too tired to cause any grief. |
| grim | Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie. Few creatures thrive in this grim and hostile land. |
| homesickness | A feeling of longing for one’s home during a period of absence from it. I lived four years in London without a single pang of homesickness. |
| hopeless | Beyond hope of management or reform. I m hopeless at names. |
| lamentation | The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief. Scenes of lamentation. |
| loneliness | Sadness because one has no friends or company. The loneliness of a sailor s life. |
| mourning | The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief. She s still in mourning after the death of her husband. |
| nostalgia | Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia. An evening of TV nostalgia. |
| pensive | Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood. |
| pessimism | The feeling that things will turn out badly. The dispute cast an air of deep pessimism over the future of the peace talks. |
| sadness | The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness. It is one of life s sadnesses. |
| somber | Lacking brightness or color; dull. A somber mood. |
| sorrow | An event or circumstance that causes sorrow. A bereaved person needs time to work through their sorrow. |
| sorry | Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone. A sorry horse. |
| unhappy | Generalized feeling of distress. After the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence. |
| wistful | Showing pensive sadness. A wistful smile. |
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