Synonyms for Melancholy:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • somber,
  • sombre,
  • melancholy.
  •bad (adjective)
  • troubled,
  • troubling.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • un-promising,
  • more unpromising,
  • drearest,
  • more disheartening,
  • most disheartening,
  • hopeless,
  • most unpromising,
  • un promising,
  • dis heartening,
  • drearer,
  • dis-heartening.
  •blue (adjective)
  • down dumps,
  • down the dumps,
  • down in the dumps.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • draggier,
  • more dejecting,
  • mopey,
  • drab,
  • un comfortable,
  • most dejecting,
  • more drearisome,
  • jarring,
  • un-comfortable,
  • in the dumps,
  • most drearisome,
  • mopiest,
  • mopier,
  • in dumps,
  • draggiest.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • 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.
  •deplorable (adjective)
  • scandalous,
  • godawful,
  • opprobrious.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • 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.
  •depressed, sad (adjective)
  • down in the mouth,
  • saddening,
  • down,
  • destroyed,
  • Dragged,
  • wet blanket,
  • trite,
  • doleful,
  • Saddened,
  • funereal,
  • woebegone,
  • moony,
  • low,
  • droopy,
  • downcast.
  •depressing (adjective)
  • most saddening,
  • de-pressing,
  • most daunting,
  • bleak,
  • more daunting,
  • de pressing,
  • more saddening.
  •desolate (adjective)
  • acheronian.
  •despairing (adjective)
  • 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.
  •despondent (adjective)
  • 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.
  •disconsolate (adjective)
  • more torn-up,
  • most torn up,
  • most tornup,
  • more crushed,
  • most crushed,
  • more torn up,
  • tornup,
  • more tornup,
  • most torn-up.
  •dismal (adjective)
  • over-cast,
  • overcast,
  • in-auspicious,
  • over cast,
  • inauspicious,
  • in auspicious.
  •dispirited (adjective)
  • more shotdown,
  • most shot down,
  • most shotdown,
  • most shot-down,
  • more shot down,
  • shotdown,
  • shot-down,
  • more shot-down.
  •dispiriting (adjective)
  • de-moralizing,
  • most crushing,
  • de moralizing.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • Dirgeful,
  • Dolent,
  • painful.
  •dolorous (adjective)
  • heart rending,
  • more heart-rending,
  • most dolesome,
  • most heart rending,
  • ruthful,
  • more heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • more dolesome,
  • more dolorific,
  • most dolorific.
  •dreary (adjective)
  • un-interesting,
  • most depressive,
  • un interesting,
  • un-eventful,
  • more depressive,
  • un eventful.
  •elegiac (adjective)
  • more threnodial,
  • most threnodial,
  • threnodial.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • dirgelike.
  •gloomy (adjective)
  • most moping,
  • more moping,
  • most mirthless,
  • more chapfallen,
  • most chapfallen,
  • more mirthless,
  • most crabbed.
  •grief-stricken (adjective)
  • over come,
  • more anguished,
  • most devastated,
  • griefstricken,
  • more devastated,
  • grief stricken,
  • most anguished.
  •heartsick (adjective)
  • heartsick.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • sodden.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • desperate,
  • forlorn.
  •joyless (adjective)
  • more depressant,
  • most depressant,
  • have blahs.
  •lamentable (adjective)
  • most god-awful,
  • more god-awful,
  • most god awful,
  • god awful,
  • more god awful.
  •lamenting (adjective)
  • elegiac.
  •languishing (adjective)
  • more pining,
  • most pining.
  •low-spirited (adjective)
  • low spirited,
  • lowspirited.
  •miserable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •moody (adjective)
  • 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.
  •morose (adjective)
  • having blahs,
  • most perversive,
  • more perversive,
  • singing blues.
  •pessimistic (adjective)
  • fore-boding,
  • more foreboding,
  • mis anthropic,
  • dis trustful,
  • re signed,
  • mis-anthropic,
  • most fatalistic,
  • re-signed,
  • more fatalistic,
  • dis-trustful,
  • fore boding,
  • most foreboding.
  •piteous (adjective)
  • more commiserable,
  • most beseeching,
  • most commiserable,
  • most imploring,
  • more beseeching,
  • more supplicating,
  • most supplicating,
  • more entreating,
  • more imploring,
  • most entreating.
  •plaintive (adjective)
  • more bellyaching,
  • most beefing,
  • most grousing,
  • wailing,
  • more wailing,
  • more beefing,
  • most wailing,
  • more grousing,
  • most bellyaching.
  •ruminative (adjective)
  • in brown study,
  • in a brown study.
  •sad (adjective)
  • in grief,
  • more bereaved,
  • most bereaved,
  • more grieved,
  • be reaved,
  • sick heart,
  • most grieved,
  • be-reaved.
  •somber (adjective)
  • most sourpuss,
  • nononsense,
  • more sourpuss.
  •sorrowful (adjective)
  • tearjerking,
  • tear jerking,
  • full sorrow.
  •spiritless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •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.
  •thoughtful (adjective)
  • 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.
  •unhappy (adjective)
  • more long-faced,
  • un happy,
  • most let down,
  • more longfaced,
  • most longfaced,
  • more let down,
  • most letdown,
  • most long faced,
  • un happiest,
  • un-happiest,
  • more letdown,
  • long faced,
  • most let-down,
  • un-happy,
  • longfaced,
  • more let-down,
  • un happier,
  • un-happier,
  • most long-faced,
  • more long faced.
  •wistful (adjective)
  • more yearning,
  • most yearning.
  •woebegone (adjective)
  • down-in-the-mouth.
  •wretched (adjective)
  • more bummed,
  • most bummed.

• n.

  •
  • remorse,
  • unhappy,
  • disappointment.
  •
  • unfortunate.
  •
  • feelings.
  •baby blues (noun)
  • baby-blues,
  • postpartum depressions.
  •black bile (noun)
  • black bile.
  •blue devils (noun)
  • pink elephants,
  • DT,
  • Mulligrubs,
  • mubblefubbles.
  •blues (noun)
  • the mope,
  • moodinesses,
  • the dismal,
  • gloominesses,
  • low spirit.
  •boredom (noun)
  • ennui.
  •dejection (noun)
  • contemplativeness,
  • sullenness,
  • woefulness,
  • anxiety,
  • plaintiveness,
  • blues,
  • dolorousness,
  • grimness,
  • wistfulness.
  •depression (noun)
  • dispiritedness,
  • lugubriosity,
  • melancholia,
  • heavyheartedness,
  • the blues,
  • the blue,
  • Disconsolation,
  • blahs,
  • cheerlessness,
  • bleakness,
  • Abjectness,
  • Melancholias,
  • blue devils,
  • hypochondria,
  • abjection,
  • lowness,
  • heaviness of heart.
  •depression, sadness (noun)
  • despondency,
  • Miserableness,
  • tedium,
  • dolor,
  • downer,
  • bummer,
  • blue funk,
  • down trip,
  • boredom,
  • letdown,
  • dolefuls,
  • mopes,
  • wretchedness,
  • desperation.
  •despair (noun)
  • forlornnesses.
  •desperation (noun)
  • dis traction,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis-tractions,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis comforts,
  • disconsolatenesses,
  • dis tractions,
  • dis-traction.
  •discouragement (noun)
  • dis may,
  • dis-appointments,
  • dis-mays,
  • dis appointment,
  • dis-appointment,
  • dis appointments,
  • loss confidence,
  • dis mays,
  • dis-may.
  •dolefulness (noun)
  • heavy heartedness.
  •downheartedness (noun)
  • low-spiritednesses,
  • lowspiritedness,
  • lowspiritednesses,
  • low spiritedness,
  • low spiritednesses.
  •dreariness (noun)
  • in sipidities,
  • colorlessnesses,
  • in-sipidities,
  • in-sipidity,
  • boringnesses,
  • in sipidity.
  •emotion (noun)
  • vibe,
  • excitability,
  • vibes,
  • warmth,
  • empathy,
  • responsiveness.
  •ennui (noun)
  • spiritlessnesses,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • lack interest,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis-satisfaction.
  •feelings (noun)
  • emotion.
  •grief (noun)
  • 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.
  •hate (noun)
  • spleen.
  •hopelessness (noun)
  • moroseness,
  • glumness,
  • heartlessness,
  • abandonment,
  • anguish.
  •lamentation (noun)
  • ululation.
  •malaise (noun)
  • 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.
  •megrim (noun)
  • megrim,
  • vertigo.
  •misery (noun)
  • anvil choru,
  • worriments,
  • hurtings,
  • head-ache.
  •mood (noun)
  • high spiritses,
  • dis positions,
  • dis-positions,
  • frame mind,
  • dis position,
  • dis-position.
  •mournfulness (noun)
  • saturninities,
  • fore bodings,
  • mis-giving,
  • pensivenesses,
  • Catatonias,
  • mis giving.
  •pessimism (noun)
  • dis trust,
  • dis trusts,
  • dis-trusts,
  • dis-trust,
  • dark sides,
  • gloomy outlooks,
  • expectation worst,
  • dim views.
  •pity (noun)
  • Condolement.
  •sadness (noun)
  • the dump,
  • grievings,
  • sorrowfulnesses,
  • broken hearts,
  • downcastnesses.
  •sorrow (noun)
  • big troubles,
  • mis fortunes,
  • mis fortune,
  • mis-fortunes.
  •state of mind (noun)
  • mood.
  •sullenness (noun)
  • grumpiness,
  • hostility,
  • petulance,
  • darkness,
  • surliness,
  • fretfulness,
  • cynicism,
  • dourness,
  • grouchiness,
  • crossness,
  • crabbiness,
  • meanness,
  • sulkiness,
  • contrariness,
  • unfriendliness,
  • irascibility,
  • obstinacy,
  • cantankerousness,
  • sourness,
  • malevolence,
  • long-facedness.
  •unhappiness (noun)
  • un-happinesses,
  • joylessnesses,
  • un happinesses,
  • un-happiness,
  • anhedonias,
  • un happiness.
  •woe (noun)
  • mis adventure,
  • mis-adventure,
  • mis adventures,
  • mis-adventures.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •
  • funk,
  • mope,
  • cranky.
  •
  • broken.
  •dismal
  • black.
  •forlorn
  • heavy-hearted.
  •in low spirits
  • dull.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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:

• 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.