melancholy

Synonyms

blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness;

Antonyms

bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, happiness, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness;

Near Antonyms

gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness;

cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness;

contentedness, contentment, satisfaction;

delight, gratification;

Related Words

melancholia, self-pity;

anguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulness;

agony, distress, pain;

misery, woe, wretchedness;

discouragement, disheartenment;

moodiness;

despair, desperation, hopelessness;

dismalness, morbidness, moroseness;

Synonyms

bad, blue, brokenhearted, cast down, crestfallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, doleful, down, downcast, downhearted, droopy, forlorn, gloomy, glum, hangdog, heartbroken, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, inconsolable, joyless, low, low-spirited, melancholic, miserable, mournful, sad, saddened, sorrowful, sorry, unhappy, woebegone, woeful, wretched;

Antonyms

blissful, buoyant, buoyed, cheerful, cheery, chipper, delighted, glad, gladdened, gladsome, gleeful, happy, joyful, joyous, jubilant, sunny, upbeat;

Near Antonyms

ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical);

blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful;

excited, thrilled;

hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine;

encouraged, heartened;

animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy;

content, gratified, pleased, satisfied;

beaming, grinning, laughing, smiling;

Related Words

aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, upset, worried;

despairing, hopeless, sunk;

disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited;

suicidal;

dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful;

regretful, rueful;

agonized, anguished, grieving, wailing, weeping;

black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, desolate, dismal, dreary, elegiac (also elegiacal), funereal, gray (also grey), morbid, morose, saturnine, somber (or sombre), sullen;