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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..

Downcast :: Downcast (n.) Downcast or melancholy look.

Dejection :: Dejection (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.

Sombre :: Sombre (a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections..

Tarantism :: Tarantism (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue..

Pensive :: Pensive (a.) Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing..

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..

Dusky :: Dusky (a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.

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

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

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

Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Blue :: Blue (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..

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

Melancholious :: Melancholious (a.) Melancholy.

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

Melancholist :: Melancholist (n.) One affected with melancholy or dejection.

Spleen :: Spleen (n.) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

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