Adjective melancholy has 1 sense
  1. 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)
,Noun melancholy has 3 senses
  1. 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
  2. melancholy - a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
    --2 is a kind of
    depression
  3. 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
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