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melancholy
adjective as in depressed, sad
Weak matches
dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down and out, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downhearted, dragged, droopy, funereal, glum, heavy-hearted, in blue funk, joyless, lachrymose, low-spirited, lugubrious, mirthless, miserable, moony, saddened, saddening, sorry, torn-up, unhappy, wet blanket, woebegone, woeful
noun as in depression, sadness
Strongest matches
boredom, despair, desperation, despondency, ennui, gloom, grief, sorrow, wistfulness
Strong matches
blahs, blues, bummer, dejection, dolor, downer, dumps, funk, gloominess, letdown, miserableness, misery, mopes, mournfulness, pensiveness, tedium, unhappiness, woe, wretchedness
Weak matches
blue devils, blue funk, dismals, dolefuls, down trip, low spirits
Example Sentences
I love it for the way it captures history’s impossible vastness with a melancholy sweetness that is savored here.
The band followed their debut EP with “Murmur,” a 1983 album of melancholy mystery that had no precedent, and became a template for the generation of guitar bands that followed.
From early years of rock sparsity - pulling apart the remnants of Joy Division's post-punk gloom and David Bowie's Low era - they bloomed into late-80s indie-pop heavyweights - defined by Smith's melancholy.
Classic melancholy on paper perhaps, but live it sounds brutally honest, unapologetically raging and resigned in equal measure.
While it is very funny, it is also rife with melancholy, a yearning for emotional connection and a sense that people are often unknowable, most of all to themselves.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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