Definition for Melancholy:

• Despondence; dejection: depression of spirits.

Synonyms for Melancholy:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • somber,
  • sombre.
  •bad (adjective)
  • troubled.
  •blue (adjective)
  • down in the dumps.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • downhearted,
  • heartbroken,
  • sullen,
  • morose,
  • woeful,
  • overcome,
  • mournful,
  • lachrymose,
  • discouraged,
  • despondent,
  • contemplative,
  • anxious,
  • gloomy,
  • Mopish,
  • broody,
  • atrabilious,
  • grim,
  • sad,
  • pensive,
  • disheartened,
  • anguished,
  • glum.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • in blue funk,
  • low-spirited,
  • spiritless,
  • tristful,
  • dysphoric,
  • melancholic.
  •depressed, sad (adjective)
  • down in the mouth,
  • saddening,
  • down,
  • destroyed,
  • Dragged,
  • wet blanket,
  • trite,
  • doleful,
  • Saddened,
  • funereal,
  • woebegone,
  • moony,
  • low,
  • droopy,
  • downcast.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • bleak.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • painful.
  •heartsick (adjective)
  • heartsick.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • forlorn,
  • hopeless,
  • desperate.
  •lamenting (adjective)
  • elegiac.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • fretful,
  • hostile,
  • scowling,
  • malevolent,
  • frowning,
  • ungenial,
  • irascible,
  • contrary,
  • glowering,
  • obstinate,
  • crabby,
  • mean,
  • grumpy,
  • cynical,
  • cross,
  • sulky,
  • noncooperative,
  • unsociable,
  • cantankerous,
  • dour,
  • unfriendly,
  • beetle-browed,
  • dissociable,
  • sour,
  • grouchy,
  • Moping,
  • surly,
  • dark,
  • uncooperative,
  • petulant.

• n.

  •
  • remorse,
  • unhappy.
  •
  • unfortunate.
  •boredom (noun)
  • ennui.
  •dejection (noun)
  • contemplativeness,
  • sullenness,
  • woefulness,
  • anxiety,
  • plaintiveness,
  • blues,
  • dolorousness,
  • grimness,
  • wistfulness.
  •depression (noun)
  • blue devils,
  • cheerlessness,
  • heavyheartedness,
  • dispiritedness,
  • blahs,
  • melancholia,
  • hypochondria,
  • bleakness.
  •depression, sadness (noun)
  • despondency,
  • Miserableness,
  • tedium,
  • dolor,
  • downer,
  • bummer,
  • blue funk,
  • down trip,
  • boredom,
  • letdown,
  • dolefuls,
  • mopes,
  • wretchedness,
  • desperation.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •hate (noun)
  • spleen.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • moroseness,
  • glumness,
  • heartlessness,
  • abandonment,
  • anguish.
  •lamentation (noun)
  • ululation.
  •megrim (noun)
  • megrim.
  •melancholy (noun)
  • black bile.
  •sullenness (noun)
  • grumpiness,
  • hostility,
  • petulance,
  • darkness,
  • surliness,
  • fretfulness,
  • cynicism,
  • dourness,
  • grouchiness,
  • crossness,
  • crabbiness,
  • meanness,
  • sulkiness,
  • contrariness,
  • unfriendliness,
  • irascibility,
  • obstinacy,
  • cantankerousness,
  • sourness,
  • malevolence,
  • long-facedness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • lovelorn,
  • heavy-heartedness,
  • devastated,
  • dismayed,
  • dispiriting,
  • shattered,
  • Grieved,
  • sepulchral,
  • doldrums,
  • regretful,
  • lugubrious,
  • harassed,
  • careworn,
  • deflated,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • homesick.
  •
  • flattened,
  • gloom,
  • regretfully,
  • oppressed,
  • claustrophobic,
  • unhappiness,
  • suicidal,
  • dumps.
  •
  • distressed,
  • injured,
  • downbeat,
  • sadly.
  •
  • funk,
  • mope,
  • cranky.
  •dismal
  • black.
  •forlorn
  • heavy-hearted.
  •in low spirits
  • dull.
  •Other relevant words:
  • awful,
  • drab,
  • curtail,
  • appalling,
  • abate,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • Dumpish,
  • lessen,
  • satiation,
  • mopey,
  • cogitative,
  • excruciating,
  • dully,
  • defeatist,
  • disconsolately,
  • blase,
  • inauspicious,
  • cut,
  • concentration,
  • dusky,
  • mouth,
  • affecting,
  • bitter,
  • go down,
  • perturbing,
  • disheartening,
  • dejectedness,
  • involve,
  • vapors,
  • heartbreak,
  • speculativeness,
  • conceive,
  • afflictive,
  • despond,
  • Moanful,
  • hapless,
  • tired,
  • consider,
  • uncheerful,
  • boringly,
  • discontent,
  • agony of mind,
  • mourning,
  • flat,
  • subside,
  • tiredness,
  • drably,
  • interrupt,
  • swart,
  • connote,
  • prostration,
  • thinking,
  • fed up,
  • funeral,
  • distressing,
  • moving,
  • angst,
  • dim,
  • agony,
  • heartache,
  • Gloomy Gus,
  • lurid,
  • moodily,
  • Afflicting,
  • gloaming,
  • horrors,
  • chopfallen,
  • yearning,
  • close study,
  • cheer up,
  • engrossment,
  • Black-browed,
  • give way,
  • detract,
  • dullness,
  • terrible,
  • disturbing,
  • solemn,
  • ruth,
  • bitterness,
  • Grumness,
  • teary,
  • calamity,
  • Moodish,
  • aggrieved,
  • il penseroso,
  • Grum,
  • grievous,
  • serious,
  • harrowing,
  • ill humor,
  • aching heart,
  • sorrowfully,
  • chap-fallen,
  • touching,
  • somberly,
  • dispiritedly,
  • disquieting,
  • broken up,
  • Sombrous,
  • comfortless,
  • come,
  • suffering,
  • lovesick,
  • distort,
  • pained,
  • murky,
  • extremity,
  • wretched,
  • gloomful,
  • unhappily,
  • chill,
  • distress,
  • adversity,
  • ill-omened,
  • sobriety,
  • alleviate,
  • world-weariness,
  • mournfully,
  • Melancholiness,
  • hurt,
  • funky,
  • tediously,
  • unlucky,
  • crestfallen,
  • heartsore,
  • heartbreaking,
  • grave,
  • intensity,
  • prostrate,
  • imagine,
  • tearful,
  • rueful,
  • deep thought,
  • wearied,
  • mumps,
  • musing,
  • satiated,
  • upset,
  • pathetic,
  • Life-weary,
  • lost,
  • lugubriously,
  • dismally,
  • intermit,
  • sober,
  • sulking,
  • megrims,
  • Dumpishness,
  • brokenhearted,
  • blank,
  • splenetic,
  • weariness,
  • clouded,
  • tenebrific,
  • negative,
  • heart-breaking,
  • tragical,
  • out of spirits,
  • lowering,
  • horrible,
  • pensively,
  • wailful,
  • wronged,
  • in the dumps,
  • consternation,
  • hypochondriasis,
  • desirous,
  • Subfuscous,
  • ill at ease,
  • Mopishness,
  • subfusc,
  • weary,
  • bereavement,
  • deform,
  • taedium vitae,
  • trial,
  • seriousness,
  • calamitous,
  • overwhelmed,
  • meditative,
  • lugubriousness,
  • bleakly,
  • absorption,
  • bleeding heart,
  • study,
  • allude,
  • Atrabiliar,
  • Unlively,
  • commotion,
  • brown study,
  • Reflectiveness,
  • Desponding,
  • disquiet,
  • anger,
  • catastrophic,
  • upsetting,
  • out of humor,
  • assuage,
  • ill-starred,
  • overcast,
  • pain,
  • diminish,
  • crushed,
  • unhealthy,
  • hurrah,
  • ill-fated,
  • gaunt,
  • regret,
  • defeatism,
  • irked,
  • Star-crossed,
  • anxiousness,
  • ridicule,
  • dreadful,
  • resignation,
  • unsatisfied,
  • stupidity,
  • diminution,
  • melancholically,
  • dwindle,
  • world-weary,
  • havoc,
  • bale,
  • gloomily,
  • Lachrymals,
  • longing,
  • Funereally,
  • Triste,
  • Mumpish,
  • jadedness,
  • brooding,
  • tragic,
  • gray,
  • preoccupation,
  • poignant,
  • dolour,
  • reverie,
  • trouble,
  • cold,
  • abstraction,
  • grim-faced,
  • cut up,
  • depressingly,
  • Discomposing,
  • pitiful,
  • dusk,
  • heart-broken,
  • misfortune,
  • tired of,
  • grieving,
  • drearily,
  • heartsickness,
  • sick,
  • glumly,
  • disastrous,
  • mitigate,
  • Darksome,
  • deep,
  • hardship,
  • despicable,
  • agonizing,
  • pitiable,
  • louring,
  • reflective,
  • suicidal despair,
  • profound thought,
  • sick of,
  • lament,
  • affliction,
  • ruminative,
  • jaded,
  • Weariful,
  • discomfort,
  • instances,
  • inconsolable,
  • think,
  • loss,
  • fall,
  • torment,
  • shocking,
  • afflicted,
  • imply,
  • crushing,
  • worry about,
  • discontented,
  • heaviness,
  • dishearten,
  • allay.

Paraphrases for Melancholy:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    depressed, acute.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    melancholic, gloomy.

Antonyms for Melancholy:

• adj.

  • depressed, sad
    cheerful, joyful, heartened, above, happy, bright, gay, decent, sunny.
  • Other antonyms:
    exuberant, happy-go-lucky, vital, lightsome, bouncing, exhilarating, lighthearted, vivacious, uplifting, rosy, easygoing, enjoyable, peppy, smiling, content, thoughtless, Sprightful, gladdened, grinning, jaunty, zippy, mindless, unreflective, frisky, sanguine, cheering, jubilant, springy, insouciant, encouraged, stirring, animated, overjoyed, unthinking, devil-may-care, welcome, heartwarming, energetic, perky, flippant, brainless, unconcerned, spirited, excited, exultant, agreeable, stimulating, optimistic, inspiring, sprightly, thrilled, thrilling, lively, Buoyed, cavalier, careless, carefree, pleasant, heartening, pleasing, hopeful.

• n.

  • depression, sadness
    joyousness, excitement, cheer, confidence, gladness, advantage, happiness, joy, benefit, boon, blessing.

Homophones for Melancholy:

• monolingual, myelomeningocele, melancholia.

Hypernym for Melancholy:

• n.

  • feeling
    gloominess, somberness, weltschmerz, brooding, pensiveness, gloom, world-weariness, heavyheartedness, sombreness.

Hyponym for Melancholy:

• n.

  • feeling
    sadness, unhappiness.
  • state
    depression.