Synonyms of melancholic

melancholic

adjective

as in sad

feeling unhappiness

she becomes quite melancholic when she reflects on all the lost opportunities of her life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sad
• depressed
• unhappy
• melancholy
• heartbroken
• miserable
• mournful
• bad
• sorrowful
• sorry
• upset
• worried
• gloomy
• uneasy
• doleful
• hopeless
• downcast
• forlorn
• troubled
• disconsolate
• dejected
• disappointed
• despondent
• glum
• joyless
• woebegone
• blue
• inconsolable
• depressing
• suicidal
• heartsick
• hangdog
• crestfallen
• distressed
• droopy
• brokenhearted
• woeful
• saddened
• wretched
• heavyhearted
• downhearted
• down
• low-spirited
• heartsore
• low
• discouraged
• despairing
• down in the mouth
• tearful
• somber
• cast down
• grieving
• aggrieved
• unquiet
• bleak
• plaintive
• lugubrious
• sunk
• morbid
• weeping
• dispirited
• sombre
• morose
• elegiac
• dolorous
• lachrymose
• anguished
• regretful
• desolate
• disheartened
• rueful
• sullen
• grey
• dark
• cheerless
• funereal
• wailing
• gray
• saturnine
• agonized
• dreary
• dismal
• black
• drear
• darkening
• comfortless
• murky
• elegiacal

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• joyous
• joyful
• cheerful
• upbeat
• buoyant
• blissful
• jubilant
• cheery
• happy
• exuberant
• sunny
• euphoric
• gleeful
• jovial
• rapturous
• ecstatic
• glad
• rhapsodic
• buoyed
• merry
• exultant
• jolly
• chipper
• optimistic
• mirthful
• delighted
• jocular
• enraptured
• blithe
• hopeful
• jocose
• jocund
• excited
• sanguine
• rosy
• energetic
• rhapsodical
• spirited
• gladsome
• lively
• elated
• vivacious
• jaunty
• exhilarated
• blithesome
• sprightly
• animated
• gladdened
• lightsome
• smiling
• overjoyed
• entranced
• perky
• vital
• peppy
• frisky
• content
• springy
• carefree
• satisfied
• laughing
• lighthearted
• bouncing
• encouraged
• careless
• easygoing
• zippy
• pleased
• unconcerned
• thrilled
• grinning
• gratified
• insouciant
• cavalier
• beaming
• heartened
• boon
• happy-go-lucky
• sprightful
• devil-may-care