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Dumpish :: Dumpish (a.) Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.

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..

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

Hypochondriasis :: Hypochondriasis (n.) A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person, particularly concerning his own health..

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

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

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..

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

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

Melancholic :: Melancholic (a.) Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

Melancholious :: Melancholious (a.) Melancholy.

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

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

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

Sadden :: Sadden (v. t.) To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful.

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..

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..

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

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

Fell :: Fell (a.) Gall; anger; melancholy.

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