Melancholy is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MELANCHOLY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• prolonged depression of spirits
• a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
• Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
• Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
• Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• Ill nature.
• 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
ADJECTIVE:
• sad, gloomy
• having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive
• causing or expressing sadness; depressing
• Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
• Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
• Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
• Favorable to meditation; somber.
• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
• grave or even gloomy in character
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or depression; black bile; melancholia

Words related to MELANCHOLY

allicholy17 allycholly21 melancholies19 melancholily22 melancholious20

How to use MELANCHOLY in a sentence

• His latter days were of course melancholy, and his miseries resulted as much from the perception of the evils to come as from the failure of the pleasures of sense.
• The horse stood without being tied, in an apparently listless and melancholy dream.
• Now there is something very depressing in the thought that this state of mind is extant in England, for it is calculated, on occasion, to have results of a most melancholy nature.
• Hence the peculiar charm of the early flowers of spring, and of those equally delightful flowers that come up to cheer the short and melancholy days of November.
• The melancholy of the occasion cannot be shaken off.
• If I were determined to indulge grief or melancholy, I would never remove from the spot where I had formed the resolution.
• The return of this day cannot but suggest very melancholy reflections to all who are witnesses of the changes which a single year has produced.
• We all agreed that it would be a melancholy attempt at mirth now you are gone, and dear Fred and John and poor Joe.
• I left this melancholy ruin, full of thought, and proceeded across the shell-pitted gardens towards the few little cottages beyond.
• This was Elizabeth Hohenhorst, a child of twelve, remarkably quiet, and disposed to melancholy.
• Versailles, its magnificent palace and gardens, are altogether fraught with melancholy associations.
• We have in the volume before us the melancholy spectacle of an aged female of quality setting her cap at everybody.
• In the rain the roofless houses, shattered windows, and broken carvings that littered the street presented a picture of melancholy and useless desolation.
• I shall not easily forget the circumstances of this brief, but melancholy progress.
• The few persons present gazed on them in silence, duly impressed with the melancholy spectacle.
• His resolution filled them with melancholy, and an absolute sense of death.
• The Priory was all stillness, melancholy, and mourning.
• Between those miserable disputes over household matters and the melancholy conviction as to her fate, quite a long time had elapsed.
• At this time that country presented a melancholy aspect.
• Indeed, there were melancholy sights enough in the streets of Boston to draw forth the tears of a compassionate man.
• In the depth of her despairing melancholy she will become a nun.
• To my ear they had also a peculiar music, wild, melancholy, and elevating.
• While I slept, the Duke held a melancholy council to debate what could be done.
• It was too early for the bird to be heard, which never commences his melancholy chant until the shades of evening are spread over the dewy earth.

Similar words containing MELANCHO without suffix ly

melancholia18 melancholic20 melancholiac21 melancholiae19 melancholias19 melancholics21 melancholies19 melancholily22 melancholiacs22 melancholious20 melancholiness21 melancholically27

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