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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
absorption, abstraction, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bale, beetle-browed, bitterness, black, black-browed, blase, bleeding heart, blue, blues, boredness, boredom, bouderie, broken heart, brown study, cheerless, cheerlessness, close study, concentration, contemplativeness, crestfallen, crushing, dark, deep thought, dejected, dejectedness, dejection, depressed, depressing, depression, depth of misery, desolation, despair, desperation, despondency, despondent, discomposing, disconsolate, disconsolateness, dismal, dispirited, dispiritedness, disquieting, disturbing, doleful, dolor, dolorous, dour, downcast, downhearted, downheartedness, dreary, dumpish, dumpishness, dumps, engrossment, ennui, extremity, fed-up, fed-upness, forlorn, frowning, funereal, funky, gentle melancholy, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, glowering, glum, glumness, good and tired, grief, grim, grimness, grum, grumness, heartache, heartbroken, heavy heart, heavyhearted, heavyheartedness, infelicity, irked, jaded, jadedness, joyless, lachrymose, lamentable, life-weariness, life-weary, low, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, lugubriousness, melancholia, melancholic, melancholiness, miserable, miserableness, misery, moanful, moodiness, moodish, moodishness, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, mopishness, morose, moroseness, mournful, mournfulness, mumpish, musing, pensive, pensiveness, perturbing, plaintive, preoccupation, profound thought, prostration, reflective, reflectiveness, reverie, romantic melancholy, rueful, sad, saddened, saddening, sadness, satiated, satiation, satiety, scowling, sick, sick of, somber, sombrous, sorrow, sorrowful, sorrowfulness, sorry, speculativeness, spleen, splenetic, study, suicidal despair, sulkiness, sulky, sullen, sullenness, surliness, surly, taedium vitae, tedium, thoughtful, thoughtfulness, tired, tired of, tired of living, tired to death, tiredness, triste, tristful, tristfulness, unhappiness, unhappy, wailful, wearied, weariful, wearifulness, weariness, weary, weary unto death, wistful, wistfulness, woe, woebegone, woeful, woefulness, world-weariness, world-weary, wretchedness
Dictionary Results for melancholy:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
melancholy
    adj 1: characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
           "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic
           smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
           [syn: melancholy, melancholic]
    2: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful
       music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn:
       somber, sombre, melancholy]
    n 1: a feeling of thoughtful sadness
    2: a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
    3: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys
       or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy [syn: black
       bile, melancholy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Melancholy \Mel"an*chol*y\, n. [OE. melancolie, F.
   m['e]lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ?; me`las, me`lanos,
   black + ? gall, bile. See Malice, and 1st Gall.]
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   1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a
      considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. --Shak.
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   2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to
      mental unsoundness; melancholia.
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   3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] "Hail,
      divinest Melancholy !" --Milton.
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   4. Ill nature. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Melancholy \Mel"an*chol*y\, a.
   1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. --Shak.
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   2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection;
      calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
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   3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
      [Obs.] --Bp. Reynolds.
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   4. Favorable to meditation; somber.
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            A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
                                                  --Evelin.
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   Syn: Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-spirited; downhearted;
        unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy, doleful;
        dismal; calamitous; afflictive.
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