Words and phrases that have a meaning related to melancholy: (151 results)
Often used in the same context:
melancholic, elegiac, mournful, wistfulness, melancholia, pathos, brooding, plangent, morose, ruminative, moody, pensiveness, lyricism, ruefulness, dreamy, romanticism, poetic, lugubrious, maudlin, sentimentality, poeticism, poignancy, melody, plaintiveness, lilting, sunniness, haunting, sorrowful, ennui, soulfulness, dolorous, doleful, contemplative, songful, lyrical, introspective, jaunty, languor, melodic, poignant, foreboding, sombreness, playfulness, joyousness, ethereal, beguiling, balladry, wry, whimsy, lonesomeness, doomy, folky, bluesy, quavery, melodiousness, loneliness, elegy, touchingly, incantatory, songlike, brassiness, mawkish, tremulous, dirge, strangeness, ballad, inwardness, sadness, barrelhouse, tuneful, droll, misanthropy, threnody, hopefulness, dreamlike, longing, languorous, sardonic, evocative, sublimity, affectingly, eeriness, mellow, desolation, melodramatic, pointillistic, grimness, breeziness, jazzy, twilit, atonality, whispery, winsomeness, archness, impressionistic, nocturnes, rhapsodic, oneiric, fatalism, lyric, mopey, wordsworthian, despondency, thoughtfulness, dejection, lassitude, nostalgia, reverie, reveries, sorrow, weariness, pity, regret, remorse, sad, sadder, dismal, depressing, saddest, somber, woeful, cheerful, lamentable, awful, dispiriting, distressful, grim, pathetic, unpleasing
More specific:
gloom, gloominess, heavyheartedness, somberness, weltschmerz, world-weariness
Appears in the definition of:
., black bile, blues, dejection, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heavyheartedness, quiescent, somberness, stygian, subtly
More general:
Also try:depression, humor, humour, unhappiness
— Nouns for melancholy: smile, man, mood, eyes, event, tone, fact, thoughts, pleasure, air, truth, more...
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