Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
- 2noun
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
- 3noun
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
- 4noun
Ill nature.
- 5adjective
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
- 6adjective
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
- 7adjective
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
- 8adjective
Favorable to meditation; somber.
- 9noun
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
- 10noun
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
- 11noun
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- 12adjective
grave or even gloomy in character
"solemn and mournful music"
"a suit of somber black"
- 13adjective
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
"growing more melancholy every hour"
"her melancholic smile"
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