- melancholy, melancholic - characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
Antonym: glad (indirect, via sad)
- melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness
--1 is a kind of sadness, unhappiness
--1 has particulars:gloom, gloominess, somberness; heavyheartedness; pensiveness, brooding; world-weariness, Weltschmerz - melancholy - a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
--2 is a kind of depression
- black bile, melancholy - a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
--3 is a kind of liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
- melancholy - a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed