Thesaurus / melancholy
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In three months, NASA will come upon the 10th anniversary of the final space shuttle flight, a period that was surely melancholy for the space agency.
NASA GETS WHAT IT WANTED: INDEPENDENT, RELIABLE ACCESS TO SPACEERIC BERGERAPRIL 23, 2021ARS TECHNICAWilde wrote The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which, despite the title, all have a certain melancholy about them.
12 CRAZY TRUE STORIES ABOUT CHILDREN’S AUTHORSKATE BARTLETTAPRIL 1, 2021OZYThe researcher’s team also found that users with a tendency to post or engage with melancholy content—a possible sign of depression—could easily spiral into consuming increasingly negative material that risked further worsening their mental health.
HOW FACEBOOK GOT ADDICTED TO SPREADING MISINFORMATIONKAREN HAOMARCH 11, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWWhat saves me from my warm-weather melancholy, however, are new product releases signaling the promise of the next ski season.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP CALLING THEM “ASIAN FIT” GOGGLES?BENNY CHENFEBRUARY 22, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEThe Josh Allen Experience got a little less wild — a lot betterWhile the Bills dominated, their fans rejoiced with a tinge of melancholy.
‘BILLS MAFIA’ WAITED A GENERATION FOR A TEAM LIKE THIS. IT’S HAD TO EMBRACE IT FROM AFAR.ADAM KILGOREJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POSTBut, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETTAt the same time he is appreciative and very amusing, and one has no chance to indulge in melancholy with him.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAYQuaint old Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its abuse.
TOBACCO; ITS HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCEE. R. BILLINGS.There is among women always a melancholy satisfaction in seeing the very last of the beloved object.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThere is nothing like it among us at the present day except within the melancholy precincts of the penitentiary.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 15, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO MELANCHOLY
- at
- bad
- bleeding
- blue
- bummed out
- cast-down
- crestfallen
- crummy
- dejected
- desolate
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- dispirited
- down
- down and out
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dull
- dysphoric
- fed up
- gloomy
- glum
- grim
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in a blue funk
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the toilet
- let down
- low
- low-down
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- moody
- morose
- on a downer
- pessimistic
- ripped
- sad
- sob story
- spiritless
- taken down
- torn up
- tristful
- unhappy
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- afflicted
- agonized
- ailing
- anguished
- brokenhearted
- crestfallen
- dejected
- desolate
- despairing
- despondent
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- discontented
- distressed
- doleful
- dolorous
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- heartbroken
- hopeless
- hurt
- hurting
- ill
- in pain
- injured
- melancholy
- mournful
- on a downer
- pained
- pathetic
- pitiable
- racked
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick
- sickly
- sorrowful
- strained
- suffering
- tormented
- tortured
- tragic
- troubled
- woebegone
- wounded
- wretched
- aches
- agonies
- anguish
- anvil choruses
- bad news
- blues
- depressions
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomforts
- distress
- dolors
- gloom
- griefs
- hardships
- headaches
- heartaches
- hurtings
- melancholies
- pangs
- passions
- sadness
- sorrows
- squalor
- stitches
- sufferings
- throes
- torments
- tortures
- twinges
- unhappiness
- woes
- worries
- worriments
- wretchedness
- ache
- agony
- anguish
- anvil chorus
- bad news
- blues
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondency
- discomfort
- distress
- dolor
- gloom
- grief
- hardship
- headache
- heartache
- hurting
- melancholy
- pang
- passion
- sadness
- sorrow
- squalor
- stitch
- suffering
- throe
- torment
- torture
- twinge
- unhappiness
- woe
- worriment
- worry
- wretchedness
- affection
- air
- atmosphere
- attitude
- aura
- bent
- blues
- caprice
- character
- color
- condition
- crotchet
- cue
- depression
- desire
- disposition
- doldrums
- dumps
- emotion
- fancy
- feel
- feeling
- frame of mind
- high spirits
- humor
- inclination
- individuality
- low spirits
- melancholy
- mind
- personality
- pleasure
- propensity
- response
- scene
- semblance
- soul
- spirit
- strain
- temper
- temperament
- tendency
- tenor
- timbre
- vagary
- vein
- whim
- wish
- affections
- airs
- atmospheres
- attitudes
- auras
- bents
- blues
- caprices
- characters
- colors
- conditions
- crotchets
- cues
- depressions
- desires
- dispositions
- doldrums
- dumps
- emotions
- fancies
- feelings
- feels
- frame of minds
- high spirits
- humors
- inclinations
- individualities
- low spirits
- melancholies
- minds
- personalities
- pleasures
- propensities
- responses
- scenes
- semblances
- souls
- spirits
- strains
- temperaments
- tempers
- tendencies
- tenors
- timbres
- vagaries
- veins
- whims
- wishes
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- aberrant
- abnormal
- ailing
- brooding
- dark
- deadly
- depressed
- despondent
- diseased
- dreadful
- frightful
- ghastly
- ghoulish
- grim
- grisly
- gruesome
- hideous
- horrid
- infected
- irascible
- macabre
- malignant
- melancholy
- monstrous
- moody
- pessimistic
- saturnine
- sick
- somber
- sullen
- unhealthy
- unnatural
- unsound
- unusual
- unwholesome
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.