MELANCHOLIA Synonyms

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime

• blue clothing

• any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue

• the sky as viewed during daylight

• used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

• the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic

• any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae

• of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky

• used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)

• filled with melancholy and despondency

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• suggestive of sexual impropriety

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• morally rigorous and strict

• causing dejection

• turn blue

• a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

• a state of depression

• a state of melancholy depression

• solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

• feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

• a feeling of low spirits

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• the property of being comparatively great in weight

• persisting sadness

• an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency

• used of a line or mark

• unwelcome burdensome difficulty

• state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

• the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

• the state of being sad

• a state of gloomy sorrow

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness

• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

• grave or even gloomy in character