melancholy

Meanings

Noun

• a feeling of thoughtful sadness
• a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
• a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Adjective Satellite

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  • "growing more melancholy every hour"
  • "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
• grave or even gloomy in character

Synonyms

black bile, melancholic, somber, sombre