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Definition of melancholy

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Melancholy (a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event..

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Melancholiness :: Melancholiness (n.) The state or quality of being melancholy.

Hypochondria :: Hypochondria (n.) Hypochondriasis; melancholy; the blues.

Temper :: Temper (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy..

Plaintive :: Plaintive (n.) Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad.

Sorry :: Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.

Atrabilarian :: Atrabilarian (n.) A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac.

Atrabiliar :: Atrabiliar (a.) Melancholy; atrabilious.

Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Ill nature.

Dull :: Dull (superl.) Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day..

Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal..

Atrabilarious :: Atrabilarious (a.) Affected with melancholy; atrabilious.

Dump :: Dump (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits; despondency; ill humor; -- now used only in the plural..

Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia..

Melancholic :: Melancholic (n.) A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.

Melancholize :: Melancholize (v. t.) To make melancholy.

Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Favorable to meditation; somber.

Vapor :: Vapor (n.) An old name for hypochondria, or melancholy; the blues..

Melancholily :: Melancholily (adv.) In a melancholy manner.

Atrabiliary :: Atrabiliary (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania..