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Melancholy :: Melancholy (n.) Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

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

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

Melancholily :: Melancholily (adv.) In a melancholy manner.

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

Gloom :: Gloom (n.) Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.

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

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

Melancholy :: Melancholy (a.) Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

Temper :: Temper (n.) Constitution of body; temperament; in old writers, the mixture or relative proportion of the four humors, blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy..

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

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.

Gloaming :: Gloaming (n.) Sullenness; melancholy.

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

Deep :: Deep (superl.) Profound; thorough; complete; unmixed; intense; heavy; heartfelt; as, deep distress; deep melancholy; deep horror..

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

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..

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..

Melancholian :: Melancholian (n.) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.

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