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100 Best Synonyms for “Melancholy”

July 9, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. anguish severe mental pain
2. anguished showing severe mental pain
3. bereft saddened by loss
4. black mood a very gloomy mood
5. bleak cold and hopelessly sad
6. bleakness cold, hopeless sadness
7. blue feeling a sad feeling
8. blue mood a sad emotional state
9. brokenhearted filled with deep sorrow
10. brooding dark, moody reflection
11. cast down feeling sad and discouraged
12. cheerless without cheer; gloomy
13. clouded made gloomy or troubled
14. crestfallen sadly disappointed
15. dejected sad and discouraged
16. dejection low spirits and discouragement
17. depressed mood a low emotional state
18. depression persistent low mood
19. despondency loss of hope and spirit
20. despondent without hope; very sad
21. dispiritedness loss of enthusiasm and hope
22. doleful expressing sorrow or misery
23. dolefulness sadness and mournfulness
24. downhearted feeling discouraged and sad
25. downheartedness discouraged sadness
26. dreariness dull, bleak sadness
27. ennui listless dissatisfaction and weariness
28. feeling blue feeling sad
29. forlorn pitifully sad and lonely
30. forlornness pitiful loneliness and sadness
31. funereal grimly sad and solemn
32. gloom dark sadness or depression
33. gloominess dark, depressed feeling
34. gloomy darkly sad or depressed
35. glum quietly gloomy or sullen
36. glumness gloomy sadness
37. grief deep sorrow, especially after loss
38. grieving feeling deep sorrow
39. grim harshly serious and sad
40. heartache deep emotional pain
41. heartbroken overwhelmed by sorrow
42. heartsick deeply saddened
43. heartsickness deep emotional sorrow
44. heaviness emotional weight or sadness
45. heavy mood a weighed-down feeling
46. heavy of heart feeling deep sorrow
47. heavy-hearted feeling deep sadness
48. homesick sad from missing home
49. hopeless without hope; despairing
50. in low spirits feeling sad and discouraged
51. in the dumps feeling low and sad
52. inconsolable unable to be comforted
53. joyless without joy or happiness
54. lamenting expressing sorrow
55. lovelorn sad because of lost love
56. low mood a sad emotional state
57. low spirits a sad, discouraged mood
58. low-spirited feeling down and discouraged
59. lugubrious exaggeratedly mournful
60. miserable very unhappy
61. misery great unhappiness or suffering
62. moodiness gloomy emotional variability
63. moody gloomy or quietly sad
64. morose sullen and gloomy
65. moroseness sullen gloominess
66. mournful sad and sorrowing
67. mournfulness quiet, sorrowful sadness
68. mourning feeling grief after loss
69. nostalgic sadly longing for the past
70. pensive thoughtfully sad
71. pensiveness thoughtful sadness
72. plaintive sadly expressive
73. reflective thoughtful, sometimes sadly so
74. regret sadness about something past
75. regretful feeling sorrow or remorse
76. rueful sadly regretful
77. ruminative deeply thoughtful and sad
78. saddened made sad
79. sadness a feeling of sorrow
80. saturnine gloomy in temperament
81. sepulchral gloomy and deathlike
82. shadowed darkened by sadness
83. somberness dark seriousness and sadness
84. sombre dark, serious, and sad
85. sorrow deep distress or grief
86. sorrowful feeling or showing sorrow
87. sullen gloomy and withdrawn
88. tearful full of tears and sadness
89. the blues feelings of sadness
90. troubled distressed and uneasy
91. unhappiness state of not being happy
92. unhappy not happy; sad
93. weariness tired sadness or fatigue
94. wistful sadly longing
95. wistfulness gentle longing sadness
96. woe great sorrow or distress
97. woebegone showing great sadness
98. woeful full of sorrow
99. woesome full of sorrow
100. world-weariness tired sadness with life
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