melancholy

(s) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
- growing more melancholy every hour
- her melancholic smile
- we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
melancholic,
(s) grave or even gloomy in character
- solemn and mournful music
- a suit of somber black
- a somber mood
somber, sombre,

Nouns

(n) a feeling of thoughtful sadness
(n) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
(n) a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy black bile,

Synonyms

melancholic somber sombre black bile

Words of close approximity

melancholy thistle