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