a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Ill nature.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

Favorable to meditation; somber.

Despondence; dejection: depression of spirits.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; mournful.

Gloomy: producing grief.

Dejection of spirits; sadness.

Gloomy; sad.

Morbidly gloomy; dejected; sad.

Low spirits; despondency.

Depressed in spirits; gloomy; sad.

A diseased state of the mind, characterized by great depression and gloomy apprehensions, so called as presumed to be due to an excess of black bile; a gloomy state of mind; depression of spirits.

Dejection or depression of spirits; a gloomy state of mind.

Dismal; calamitous; low- spirited.

Then why am I sad and melancholy? – The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor

" This is the man who holds your fate in his hands," whispered the melancholy man to Rehnhjelm. – The Red Room by August Strindberg

We would grow as melancholy as need be. – Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

He seemed very melancholy, and told me that never in his life had he had such a painful experience as he had this afternoon. – The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 by Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone

Ah, let me recall that melancholy scene. – Alice, or The Mysteries, Book I by Edward Bulwer Lytton

Therefore, my brave boys, continued Barbican, with some excitement; away with melancholy! – All Around the Moon by Jules Verne

" Once, and for the last time," he answered, a shade of melancholy passing over his countenance. – With Axe and Rifle by W.H.G. Kingston

How fair she is,- how sweet, yet full of a tender melancholy! – Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

A melancholy smile passed over his face. – The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

" It's too late," said Polly, in a melancholy tone,-" and it's all your doing." – Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

His blue eyes, too, have lost their laughter, and are full of a settled melancholy. – Molly Bawn by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

These melancholy thoughts filled Jeremy's mind when he started upon his walk, but soon he was absorbed by his surroundings. – Jeremy by Hugh Walpole

He did not seem to have anything very much to say but looked at us with large melancholy eyes. – The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole

For the name carried with it its own suggestion of beauty and of melancholy. – The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army by Margaret Vandercook

Mr. Carleton, Mamma, has been making me melancholy. – Queechy, Volume II by Elizabeth Wetherell

For that reason, madam, instead of the pretty little tale which I had promised, you will only have yet another melancholy story today. – Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet

A melancholy stole into their sensitive dark faces. – The Woman With The Fan by Robert Hichens

The monks' lot was not sad and melancholy. – English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield

The result was melancholy, for only three were left alive. – The Phantom Ship by Captain Frederick Marryat

And they sat there thinking each his own kind of melancholy thoughts. – The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips