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Thesaurus entry: melancholy
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- The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus
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melancholy
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adjective
a melancholy expression
synonyms
: sad, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, despondent, dejected, depressed, downhearted, downcast, disconsolate, glum, miserable, wretched, dismal, morose, woeful, woebegone, doleful, joyless, heavy-hearted;
informal
down in the dumps, down in/at the mouth, blue;
literary
atrabilious.
See note at glum.
antonym:
cheerful.
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noun
a feeling of melancholy
synonyms
: sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe, desolation, melancholia, dejection, depression, despondency, cafard, gloom, gloominess, misery;
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