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- pronunciation:
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- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, adjective), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
| definition: |
a sad, gloomy, or depressed state or quality.
Melancholy overcame her as her thoughts turned to lost opportunities.He's fallen into melancholy since his wife's death.A feeling of melancholy pervaded the household during those difficult times.- synonyms:
- dejection, depression, gloom
- antonyms:
- exhilaration, mirth
- similar words:
- blues, despair, despondency, doldrums, dolor, dumps, melancholia, sadness, sorrow
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discouragement, mourning, woe |
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adjective |
| definition 1: |
suffering from or tending to suffer from sadness, gloominess, or depression.
He was melancholy that evening, thinking of pleasant times in the past.She is a melancholy young woman who would benefit from having friends but seems to prefer solitude.- synonyms:
- dejected, disconsolate, gloomy, melancholic
- antonyms:
- buoyant, cheerful
- similar words:
- blue, cheerless, crestfallen, depressed, despondent, dispirited, doleful, downcast, downhearted, forlorn, glum, heartsick, heavy-hearted, low, lugubrious, sad, unhappy
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| definition 2: |
causing or promoting such feelings.
Returning to our old school was enjoyable for the others, but for me it was a melancholy event.- synonyms:
- depressing, disconsolate, gloomy
- antonyms:
- cheerful
- similar words:
- cheerless, desolate, dismal, doleful, dolorous, dreary, funereal, joyless, lugubrious, mournful, pensive, sad, somber, tragic, unhappy
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broken-hearted, dejected, disconsolate, down, down in the mouth, hopeless, lonesome, moody, pensive, sorry |
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