melancholy

melancholy is a 10-letter English word with 13 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 23 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
2. noun. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
3. noun. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
4. noun. Ill nature.
5. adjective. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
6. adjective. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
7. adjective. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
8. adjective. Favorable to meditation; somber.
9. noun. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
10. noun. a feeling of thoughtful sadness
11. noun. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
12. adjective. grave or even gloomy in character

    "solemn and mournful music"

    "a suit of somber black"

    Synonyms: somber, sombre

13. adjective. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

    "growing more melancholy every hour"

    "her melancholic smile"

    Synonyms: melancholic

Synonyms

somber, sombre, melancholic

Common word forms

melancholies, melancholily

Words from these letters

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