melancholy

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness (Freq. 4)
• Hypernyms:
sadness, unhappiness
• Hyponyms:
gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness, heavyheartedness,
pensiveness, brooding, world-weariness, Weltschmerz
2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
• Hypernyms:
depression
3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
• Syn:
black bile
• Hypernyms:
liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour

II - adjective

1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness (Freq. 3)
- growing more melancholy every hour
- her melancholic smile
- we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
• Syn:
melancholic
• Similar to:
sad
• Derivationally related forms:
melancholic (for: melancholic), melancholia (for: melancholic)
2. grave or even gloomy in character
- solemn and mournful music
- a suit of somber black
- a somber mood
• Syn:
somber, sombre
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
sombreness (for: sombre), somberness (for: somber)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  somber, sombre, melancholic, black bile