Synonyms for melancholia
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Noun
1. Melancholy — deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
melancholy, depression, dejection, sadness, hypochondria, gloom, misery, blues, grief, dreariness, wretchedness, woe, infelicity, tristfulness, despondency, sorrow, desolation, unhappiness, distress, down-heartedness, sorrowfulness, drearihead dated
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Definitions
- n. 1
Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
Related words
- Word family
- melancholiac melancholy melancholic
Forms
- Plural
- melancholias → melancholies, depressions, dejections, sadnesses…
Example sentences
- depression The report states that there will be a depression.
- sadness There was also an irrefutable sadness in his eyes.
- apathy Apathy is a paralysis of the soul, an early death.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| melancholia | rising | |
| depression | rising | |
| sadness | rising | |
| dejection | rising | |
| hypochondria | steady | |
| apathy | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- woe1
- 5 letters
- blues1, grief1, gloom1
- 6 letters
- misery3, sorrow2, apathy3
- 7 letters
- sadness2
- 8 letters
- distress2
- 9 letters
- dejection
- 10 letters
- depression3, melancholy4, desolation4, dreariness3, infelicity, drearihead
- 11 letters
- unhappiness4, despondency4
- 12 letters
- hypochondria5, wretchedness, tristfulness
- 13 letters
- sorrowfulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (misery3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- mélancolie
- Italiano
- malinconia
- Español
- melancolía
- Deutsch
- Melancholie