What is another word for melancholy?
1095 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mˈɛlənkˌɒli], [ mˈɛlənkˌɒli], [ m_ˈɛ_l_ə_n_k_ˌɒ_l_i]Table of Contents
Similar words for melancholy:
- all (adjective)
- bad (adjective)
- bleak (adjective)
- blue (adjective)
- cheerless (adjective)
- dejected (adjective)
- deplorable (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- depressed, sad (adjective)
- depressing (adjective)
- desolate (adjective)
- despairing (adjective)
- despondent (adjective)
- disconsolate (adjective)
- dismal (adjective)
- dispirited (adjective)
- dispiriting (adjective)
- doleful (adjective)
- dolorous (adjective)
- dreary (adjective)
- elegiac (adjective)
- funereal (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- grief-stricken (adjective)
- heartsick (adjective)
- heavy (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- joyless (adjective)
- lamentable (adjective)
- lamenting (adjective)
- languishing (adjective)
- low-spirited (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- morose (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pessimistic (adjective)
- piteous (adjective)
- plaintive (adjective)
- ruminative (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- somber (adjective)
- sorrowful (adjective)
- spiritless (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- thoughtful (adjective)
- unhappy (adjective)
- wistful (adjective)
- woebegone (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- baby blues (noun)
- black bile (noun)
- blue devils (noun)
- blues (noun)
- boredom (noun)
- dejection (noun)
- depression (noun)
- depression, sadness (noun)
- despair (noun)
- desperation (noun)
- discouragement (noun)
- dolefulness (noun)
- downheartedness (noun)
- dreariness (noun)
- emotion (noun)
- ennui (noun)
- feelings (noun)
- grief (noun)
- hate (noun)
- hopelessness (noun)
- lamentation (noun)
- malaise (noun)
- megrim (noun)
- misery (noun)
- mood (noun)
- mournfulness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- pessimism (noun)
- pity (noun)
- sadness (noun)
- sorrow (noun)
- state of mind (noun)
- sullenness (noun)
- unhappiness (noun)
- woe (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- dismal
- forlorn
- in low spirits
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Melancholy:
adj.
• all (adjective) • bad (adjective) • bleak (adjective)- un-promising,
- more unpromising,
- drearest,
- more disheartening,
- most disheartening,
- hopeless,
- most unpromising,
- un promising,
- dis heartening,
- drearer,
- dis-heartening.
- draggier,
- more dejecting,
- mopey,
- drab,
- un comfortable,
- most dejecting,
- more drearisome,
- jarring,
- un-comfortable,
- in the dumps,
- most drearisome,
- mopiest,
- mopier,
- in dumps,
- draggiest.
- glum,
- woeful,
- morose,
- broody,
- contemplative,
- grim,
- sullen,
- despondent,
- in the pits,
- gloomy,
- downhearted,
- Mopish,
- lachrymose,
- mournful,
- heartbroken,
- shot down,
- pensive,
- anxious,
- all torn up,
- anguished,
- sad,
- discouraged,
- disheartened,
- bummed out,
- overcome,
- atrabilious,
- cast down.
- lowdown,
- torn up,
- dysphoric,
- low-down,
- low-spirited,
- in blue funk,
- on a downer,
- down and out,
- melancholic,
- cast-down,
- in pain,
- spiritless,
- in a blue funk,
- taken down,
- in the toilet,
- tristful.
- down in the mouth,
- saddening,
- down,
- destroyed,
- Dragged,
- wet blanket,
- trite,
- doleful,
- Saddened,
- funereal,
- woebegone,
- moony,
- low,
- droopy,
- downcast.
- cant win,
- in soup,
- more sunk,
- at end ones rope,
- most nowin,
- at end rope,
- at end one's rope,
- no win,
- not prayer,
- at end one rope,
- at end of ones rope,
- more nowin,
- most no-win,
- at end of one rope,
- most strabilious,
- more no win,
- more strabilious,
- most sunk,
- most no win,
- more no-win,
- nowin.
- most mourning,
- most bummed out,
- more grieving,
- more mourning,
- most bummed-out,
- bummedout,
- most bummedout,
- most grieving,
- more bummed out,
- more bummedout,
- more bummed-out.
- more torn-up,
- most torn up,
- most tornup,
- more crushed,
- most crushed,
- more torn up,
- tornup,
- more tornup,
- most torn-up.
- more shotdown,
- most shot down,
- most shotdown,
- most shot-down,
- more shot down,
- shotdown,
- shot-down,
- more shot-down.
- heart rending,
- more heart-rending,
- most dolesome,
- most heart rending,
- ruthful,
- more heart rending,
- most heart-rending,
- more dolesome,
- more dolorific,
- most dolorific.
- most moping,
- more moping,
- most mirthless,
- more chapfallen,
- most chapfallen,
- more mirthless,
- most crabbed.
- over come,
- more anguished,
- most devastated,
- griefstricken,
- more devastated,
- grief stricken,
- most anguished.
- more tormented,
- most tortured,
- Racked,
- dis contented,
- dis-contented,
- most racked,
- most tormented,
- most discontented,
- more agonized,
- most agonized,
- more tortured,
- more racked,
- pained,
- wounded,
- most suffering,
- more suffering.
- in huff,
- more ill humored,
- most ill humored,
- illhumored,
- most piqued,
- illtempered,
- ill humored,
- short tempered,
- shorttempered,
- splenetic,
- introspective,
- more piqued,
- most illhumored,
- ill-humored,
- most splenetic,
- more ill-humored,
- more splenetic,
- out sorts,
- most ill-humored,
- more illhumored,
- ill tempered.
- plaintive,
- piteous,
- long-faced,
- Bummed,
- Museful,
- no-win,
- heavy,
- Dolorific,
- grousing,
- Dolesome,
- in the doldrums,
- depressive,
- miserable,
- drear,
- dreary,
- in bad mood,
- fatalistic,
- god-awful,
- bad,
- in the soup,
- dispirited,
- dolorous,
- no nonsense,
- grief-stricken,
- Drearisome,
- wistful,
- disconsolate,
- blue,
- in a bad mood,
- chapfallen,
- in despair,
- draggy,
- lost in thought,
- down in dumps,
- thoughtful,
- beefing,
- can't win,
- pessimistic,
- MOPY,
- at end of rope,
- singing the blues,
- in sorrow,
- let-down,
- unpromising,
- not a prayer,
- having blue devils,
- strabilious,
- dejected,
- torn-up,
- in low spirits,
- desolate,
- having the blahs,
- dismal,
- Languishing,
- morbid,
- sick at heart,
- despairing,
- deplorable,
- bummed-out,
- in doldrums,
- down in mouth,
- cheerless,
- in mourning,
- sorrowful,
- heavyhearted,
- philosophic,
- flat tire,
- perversive,
- moody,
- have the blahs,
- at end of one's rope,
- heart-rending,
- sorry,
- full of sorrow,
- joyless,
- depressing,
- Commiserable,
- in a huff,
- depressed,
- lamentable,
- saturnine,
- mirthless.
- fore-boding,
- more foreboding,
- mis anthropic,
- dis trustful,
- re signed,
- mis-anthropic,
- most fatalistic,
- re-signed,
- more fatalistic,
- dis-trustful,
- fore boding,
- most foreboding.
- more commiserable,
- most beseeching,
- most commiserable,
- most imploring,
- more beseeching,
- more supplicating,
- most supplicating,
- more entreating,
- more imploring,
- most entreating.
- more bellyaching,
- most beefing,
- most grousing,
- wailing,
- more wailing,
- more beefing,
- most wailing,
- more grousing,
- most bellyaching.
- in grief,
- more bereaved,
- most bereaved,
- more grieved,
- be reaved,
- sick heart,
- most grieved,
- be-reaved.
- in-different,
- un-moved,
- more zero,
- in-animate,
- unenthusiastic,
- in animate,
- sub missive,
- un enthusiastic,
- un concerned,
- most zero,
- un-concerned,
- in different,
- un-enthusiastic.
- 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.
- lost thought,
- most reasoning,
- most museful,
- more museful,
- more pondering,
- de-liberative,
- pre-occupied,
- pre occupied,
- de liberative,
- more reasoning,
- most reflecting,
- more reflecting,
- most pondering,
- in tent.
n.
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•
- remorse,
- unhappy,
- disappointment.
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•
- unfortunate.
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•
- feelings.
- contemplativeness,
- sullenness,
- woefulness,
- anxiety,
- plaintiveness,
- blues,
- dolorousness,
- grimness,
- wistfulness.
- dispiritedness,
- lugubriosity,
- melancholia,
- heavyheartedness,
- the blues,
- the blue,
- Disconsolation,
- blahs,
- cheerlessness,
- bleakness,
- Abjectness,
- Melancholias,
- blue devils,
- hypochondria,
- abjection,
- lowness,
- heaviness of heart.
- despondency,
- Miserableness,
- tedium,
- dolor,
- downer,
- bummer,
- blue funk,
- down trip,
- boredom,
- letdown,
- dolefuls,
- mopes,
- wretchedness,
- desperation.
- dis traction,
- dis-comforts,
- dis-tractions,
- dis comfort,
- dis-comfort,
- dis comforts,
- disconsolatenesses,
- dis tractions,
- dis-traction.
- dis may,
- dis-appointments,
- dis-mays,
- dis appointment,
- dis-appointment,
- dis appointments,
- loss confidence,
- dis mays,
- dis-may.
- spiritlessnesses,
- dis satisfactions,
- dis-satisfactions,
- lack interest,
- dis satisfaction,
- dis-satisfaction.
- deplorings,
- in felicity,
- be moaning,
- repinings,
- dis quiet,
- dis-quiet,
- be-wailing,
- dis quiets,
- lamentings,
- in felicities,
- dis-quiets,
- bewailings,
- re pining,
- re-pining,
- in-felicities,
- be-moaning,
- be wailing,
- in-felicity,
- bemoanings.
- un-ease,
- in-firmnesses,
- infirmnesses,
- in firmness,
- un eases,
- un ease,
- unhealthinesses,
- un-healthiness,
- un easiness,
- un-easiness,
- un-healthinesses,
- in-firmness,
- un-eases,
- sicklinesses,
- un healthinesses,
- un-easinesses,
- un healthiness,
- in firmnesses.
- headache,
- malaise,
- misery,
- dyspepsia,
- woe,
- Infirmness,
- DAMPS,
- Dyspepsias,
- peepers,
- dismals,
- gloominess,
- hopelessness,
- the dumps,
- purgatory,
- anhedonia,
- grief,
- pensiveness,
- lifelessness,
- the dismals,
- sorrowfulness,
- sorrow,
- depression,
- dreariness,
- low spirits,
- discouragement,
- Downcastness,
- lack of interest,
- morbidity,
- expectation of worst,
- spiritlessness,
- heavy heart,
- baby blues,
- Infelicities,
- dolefulness,
- desolation,
- pall,
- dim view,
- forlornness,
- unhealthiness,
- joylessness,
- milt,
- high spirits,
- head ache,
- despondence,
- Morbidities,
- the mopes,
- big trouble,
- milts,
- Sickliness,
- weepings,
- moodiness,
- loss of confidence,
- disheartenment,
- ho hums,
- broken heart,
- saturninity,
- sadness,
- catatonia,
- downheartedness,
- gloomy outlook,
- pessimism,
- infelicity,
- anvil chorus,
- disheartenments,
- satiety,
- low-spiritedness,
- dashed hope,
- tribulation,
- boringness,
- lamentation,
- dysphoria,
- dark side,
- mournfulness,
- dashed hopes,
- ho hum,
- pity,
- worriment,
- Postpartum Depression,
- rue,
- despair,
- dejection,
- colorlessness,
- disconsolateness,
- peeper.
- dis trust,
- dis trusts,
- dis-trusts,
- dis-trust,
- dark sides,
- gloomy outlooks,
- expectation worst,
- dim views.
- mood.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- harassed,
- Grieved,
- lovelorn,
- homesick,
- unfulfilled,
- devastated,
- regretful,
- sepulchral,
- Broken-hearted,
- heavy-heartedness,
- dispiriting,
- careworn,
- lugubrious,
- choked up,
- deflated,
- dismayed,
- unquiet,
- screwed up,
- shattered,
- doldrums.
-
•
- oppressed,
- cut-up,
- oppression,
- gloom,
- claustrophobic,
- dumps,
- regretfully,
- suicidal,
- subdued,
- optimism,
- unhappiness,
- flattened,
- woefully.
-
•
- distressed,
- injured,
- downbeat,
- sadly.
-
•
- broken.
- dull.
- dusk,
- heaviness,
- Weariful,
- dispiritedly,
- lost,
- Reflectiveness,
- interrupt,
- Star-crossed,
- somberly,
- sulking,
- prostrate,
- pensively,
- give way,
- terrible,
- consider,
- diminish,
- disturbing,
- lowering,
- bale,
- gloomily,
- agony of mind,
- perturbing,
- Lachrymals,
- cogitative,
- ill at ease,
- poignant,
- blase,
- rueful,
- world-weary,
- crushed,
- conceive,
- lovesick,
- Desponding,
- regret,
- engrossment,
- come,
- alleviate,
- appalling,
- irked,
- tired of,
- boringly,
- misfortune,
- hurt,
- tiredness,
- tenebrific,
- bitter,
- calamitous,
- Mopishness,
- allude,
- distressing,
- trouble,
- abstraction,
- dim,
- Moanful,
- drearily,
- calamity,
- subfusc,
- aggrieved,
- go down,
- disquieting,
- preoccupation,
- pain,
- torment,
- horrible,
- cold,
- ill-omened,
- imply,
- think,
- longing,
- drably,
- unhealthy,
- detract,
- fall,
- cut up,
- desirous,
- reflective,
- grave,
- unsatisfied,
- lugubriously,
- afflictive,
- gloomful,
- funeral,
- hardship,
- gray,
- dully,
- heartbreak,
- connote,
- lugubriousness,
- il penseroso,
- megrims,
- Darksome,
- horrors,
- wearied,
- lurid,
- concentration,
- despond,
- gloaming,
- disconsolately,
- ruth,
- brooding,
- Subfuscous,
- negative,
- blank,
- sobriety,
- heartbreaking,
- funky,
- taedium vitae,
- unhappily,
- tragical,
- louring,
- unlucky,
- shocking,
- catastrophic,
- Life-weary,
- thoughtfulness,
- Dumpish,
- Unlively,
- disastrous,
- trial,
- suffering,
- melancholically,
- dishearten,
- dreadful,
- gaunt,
- yearning,
- bleeding heart,
- flat,
- Discomposing,
- Atrabiliar,
- tediously,
- dismally,
- clouded,
- swart,
- defeatist,
- mitigate,
- chopfallen,
- grim-faced,
- cut,
- study,
- bitterness,
- angst,
- abate,
- resignation,
- heart-breaking,
- intensity,
- tragic,
- deep thought,
- disheartening,
- meditative,
- mournfully,
- discontent,
- world-weariness,
- teary,
- profound thought,
- deep,
- dusky,
- Funereally,
- discomfort,
- lessen,
- dejectedness,
- dwindle,
- distort,
- heartsickness,
- imagine,
- uncheerful,
- worry about,
- subside,
- Mumpish,
- blank despondency,
- murky,
- excruciating,
- moodily,
- reverie,
- pathetic,
- defeatism,
- instances,
- curtail,
- affliction,
- distress,
- affecting,
- seriousness,
- wronged,
- moving,
- crushing,
- suicidal despair,
- commotion,
- afflicted,
- musing,
- serious,
- despicable,
- sick of,
- involve,
- bouderie,
- harrowing,
- dullness,
- weariness,
- out of humor,
- ill humor,
- agony,
- sober,
- hapless,
- tired,
- heartache,
- cheer up,
- Grumness,
- depressingly,
- wailful,
- crestfallen,
- adversity,
- sorrowfully,
- out of spirits,
- lament,
- deform,
- chill,
- awful,
- boredness,
- pitiable,
- Melancholiness,
- close study,
- upsetting,
- agonizing,
- weary,
- loss,
- fed up,
- consternation,
- Moodish,
- Gloomy Gus,
- upset,
- stupidity,
- heart-broken,
- mumps,
- ruminative,
- grieving,
- Sombrous,
- speculativeness,
- glumly,
- aching heart,
- disquiet,
- chap-fallen,
- allay,
- heartsore,
- Dumpishness,
- thinking,
- solemn,
- Afflicting,
- absorption,
- ridicule,
- wretched,
- brown study,
- assuage,
- prostration,
- inconsolable,
- anger,
- Grum,
- satiated,
- brokenhearted,
- satiation,
- bereavement,
- extremity,
- hypochondriasis,
- discontented,
- dolour,
- mouth,
- sick,
- ill-fated,
- overwhelmed,
- jaded,
- intermit,
- comfortless,
- Triste,
- pitiful,
- mourning,
- jadedness,
- touching,
- tearful,
- anxiousness,
- hurrah,
- bleakly,
- Black-browed,
- havoc,
- grievous,
- broken up,
- ill-starred,
- vapors,
- diminution.
Paraphrases for Melancholy:
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Independent
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Other Related
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Adjective
gloomy, melancholic.
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Adjective
Homophones for Melancholy:
- monolingual, myelomeningocele, melancholia.
Hypernym for Melancholy:
n.
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feeling
gloominess, somberness, weltschmerz, brooding, pensiveness, gloom, world-weariness, heavyheartedness, sombreness.
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feeling
Hyponym for Melancholy:
n.
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feeling
sadness, unhappiness.
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state
depression.
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feeling
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