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MELANCHOLY

Definition:

1. [noun] a feeling of thoughtful sadness
   
   
2. [noun] a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
   
   
3. [noun] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
   Synonyms: black bile
   
   
4. [adjective] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
   Synonyms: melancholic
   
   

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Related Words:

• gloom, gloominess, somberness
• heavyheartedness
• pensiveness, brooding
• world-weariness, Weltschmerz

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