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| atrabilious |
sad, gloomy, or melancholy. [1/2 definitions] |
| blue |
depressed; melancholy. [1/8 definitions] |
| blues |
(used with a pl. verb) a state of melancholy or depression. [1/2 definitions] |
| Byronic |
of, concerning, or resembling Byron or his works, esp. by being melodramatic, passionate, melancholy, or ironic. |
| dejection |
lowness of spirits; depression or melancholy. |
| disconsolate |
marked by or causing melancholy or dejection. [1/2 definitions] |
| doleful |
full of sadness, sorrow, or melancholy. [1/2 definitions] |
| downbeat |
melancholy or pessimistic. [1/3 definitions] |
| gloom |
a mood or atmosphere of sadness or melancholy. [3/5 definitions] |
| gloomy |
exhibiting or filled with gloom; sad; melancholy. [1/3 definitions] |
| heavy-hearted |
burdened by sadness; depressed; dejected; melancholy. |
| languish |
to yearn or long for someone, esp. in a melancholy way. [1/3 definitions] |
| liverish |
having or displaying a disagreeable, sour, or melancholy personality; irritable. [1/3 definitions] |
| melancholic |
suffering or inclined to suffer from melancholy; sad, gloomy, or depressed. [1/2 definitions] |
| oboe |
a slender double-reed woodwind instrument, consisting of a long, usu. wooden tube with finger holes or keys along it, which makes a penetrating, melancholy sound. |
| somber |
gloomy, melancholy, or dismal. [1/2 definitions] |
| sunless |
gloomy, bleak, or melancholy. [1/2 definitions] |
| Weltschmerz |
world pain (German); pessimism or melancholy, esp. over lamentable conditions in the world. |
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