Thesaurus
melancholy
Synonyms and Antonyms of melancholy
- the melancholy thought of having to say good-bye to all the friends he had made over the summer
- She was a bit melancholy after her youngest child left for college.
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
aggrieved, distressed, troubled, uneasy, upset, worried
disappointed, discouraged, disheartened, dispirited
dolorous, lachrymose, lugubrious, plaintive, tearful
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
ecstatic, elated, enraptured, entranced, euphoric, exhilarated, exuberant, exultant, overjoyed, rapturous, rhapsodic (also rhapsodical)
blithe, blithesome, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, lightsome, merry, mirthful
hopeful, optimistic, rosy, sanguine
animated, bouncing, energetic, frisky, jaunty, lively, peppy, perky, spirited, sprightly, springy, vital, vivacious, zippy
- a melancholy period in the artist's life that is reflected in his work
introspective, retrospective, self-reflective
earnest, grave, sedate, serious, serious-minded, severe, sober, solemn, somber (or sombre), weighty
philosophical (also philosophic)
analytic (or analytical), logical, rational
melancholy
Synonyms and Antonyms of melancholy
- The bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy.
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
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