	Appearance
✓	Use device theme
✓	Dark theme
✓	Light theme

What is another word for melancholy?

Need synonyms for melancholy? Here's a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead.

Contexts ▼

Adjective

Characterized by, causing, or expressing sadness

Causing, or suggestive of, melancholy or unhappiness

Being deep in thought, or characterized by thoughtfulness

Having or arousing feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, typically in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way

Very difficult or impossible to forget

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

The characteristic of being homesick

One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology

… more ▼

Adjective

▲

Characterized by, causing, or expressing sadness

somber^US

sombre^UK

gray^US

grey^UK

demoralized^US

demoralised^UK

agonized^US

agonised^UK

humorless^US

humourless^UK

agonizing^US

agonising^UK

unfavorable^US

traumatized^US

traumatised^UK

given to looking on the black side

wintry^US

wintery^UK

baulked^UK

balked^US

racked with suffering

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

at the end of your tether

looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny

snivelling^UK

sniveling^US

looking on the black side

on the verge of tears

hairy

in floods of tears

with tears in your eyes

inexcusable

meagre^UK

meager^US

lacking in confidence

lacking in enthusiasm

more ❯

“Their melancholy expressions are at odds with the theatrical gaiety of their attire.”

Adjective

▲

Causing, or suggestive of, melancholy or unhappiness

sombre^UK

somber^US

unfavorable^US

gray^US

grey^UK

more ❯

“He was plagued with melancholy thoughts of failure.”

Adjective

▲

Being deep in thought, or characterized by thoughtfulness

“It was during this crisis that he engaged in a melancholy ponderance upon life's end.”

Adjective

▲

Having or arousing feelings of tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia, typically in an exaggerated and self-indulgent way

laid on with a trowel

more ❯

Adjective

▲

Very difficult or impossible to forget

Noun

▲

A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

spectre^UK

specter^US

vapors^US

vapours^UK

endogenous depression

dark night of the soul

trials and tribulations

acceptance of the inevitable

more ❯

“He would eventually abandon the deep melancholy and sadness that had haunted him for much of his life.”

Noun

▲

The characteristic of being homesick

Noun

One of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology

black bile

atrabile

	Find more words!








melancholy
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

Related Words and Phrases

What is another word for melancholy?

Need synonyms for melancholy? Here's a list of similar words from our thesaurus that you can use instead.

Related Words and Phrases

See Also