Definition of melancholy

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

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Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Blue :: Blue (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
Sadden :: Sadden (v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.
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..
Melancholiness :: Melancholiness (n.) The state or quality of being melancholy.
Sorry :: Sorry (a.) Melancholy; dismal; gloomy; mournful.
Fit :: Fit (n.) A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter..
Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event..
Gloomy :: Gloomy (superl.) Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper or countenance..
Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Ill nature.
Moody :: Moody (superl.) Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy..
Lycanthropy :: Lycanthropy (n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal..
Dusky :: Dusky (a.) Gloomy; sad; melancholy.
Blue :: Blue (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue..
Spleenish :: Spleenful (a.) Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy..
Atrabiliar :: Atrabiliar (a.) Melancholy; atrabilious.
Sombre :: Sombre (a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections..
Melancholic :: Melancholic (a.) Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Melancholist :: Melancholist (n.) One affected with melancholy or dejection.
Hypochondriasis :: Hypochondriasis (n.) A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health..
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