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melancholy
Overview of noun melancholy
The noun melancholy has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) melancholy -- (a feeling of thoughtful sadness)
2. melancholy -- (a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed)
3. black bile, melancholy -- (a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy)
Overview of adj melancholy
The adj melancholy has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) melancholy, melancholic -- (characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth")
2. somber, sombre, melancholy -- (grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun melancholy
3 senses of melancholy
Sense 1
melancholy
=> sadness, unhappiness
=> feeling
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
melancholy
=> depression
=> psychological state, mental state
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
black bile, melancholy
=> liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
=> body substance
=> substance, matter
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun melancholy
1 of 3 senses of melancholy
Sense 1
melancholy
=> gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness
=> heavyheartedness
=> pensiveness, brooding
=> world-weariness, Weltschmerz
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun melancholy
3 senses of melancholy
Sense 1
melancholy
=> sadness, unhappiness
Sense 2
melancholy
=> depression
Sense 3
black bile, melancholy
=> liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
Antonyms of noun melancholy
Member Holonyms of noun melancholy
Substance Holonyms of noun melancholy
Part Holonyms of noun melancholy
Member Meronyms of noun melancholy
Substance Meronyms of noun melancholy
Part Meronyms of noun melancholy
Meronyms of noun melancholy
Holonyms of noun melancholy
Attributes of noun melancholy
Derived Forms of noun melancholy
Domain of noun melancholy
Domain Terms of noun melancholy
Familiarity of noun melancholy
melancholy used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun melancholy
3 senses of melancholy
Sense 1
melancholy
> sadness, unhappiness
=> dolefulness
=> heaviness
=> melancholy
=> misery
=> forlornness, loneliness, desolation
=> weepiness, tearfulness
=> sorrow
=> sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness
=> cheerlessness, uncheerfulness
=> depression
=> downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness
Sense 2
melancholy
> depression
=> melancholia
=> blues, blue devils, megrims, vapors, vapours
=> funk, blue funk
=> melancholy
=> slough of despond
=> low spirits
=> dejection
Sense 3
black bile, melancholy
> liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
=> aqueous humor, aqueous humour
=> vitreous humor, vitreous humour, vitreous body
=> endolymph
=> perilymph
=> extracellular fluid, ECF
=> intracellular fluid
=> juice, succus
=> karyolymph
=> milk
=> amniotic fluid, amnionic fluid, waters
=> blood
=> serum, blood serum
=> chyle
=> lymph
=> semen, seed, seminal fluid, ejaculate, cum, come
=> ink
=> secretion
=> black bile, melancholy
=> yellow bile, choler
=> lochia
=> pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering
=> spinal fluid, cerebrospinal fluid
Meronyms of noun melancholy
3 senses of melancholy
Holonyms of noun melancholy
Grep of noun melancholy
melancholy
melancholy thistle
Antonyms of adj melancholy
2 senses of melancholy
Sense 1
melancholy, melancholic
INDIRECT (VIA sad) -> glad
Sense 2
somber, sombre, melancholy
INDIRECT (VIA cheerless) -> cheerful
Similarity of adj melancholy
2 senses of melancholy
Sense 1
melancholy, melancholic
=> sad (vs. glad)
Sense 2
somber, sombre, melancholy
=> cheerless (vs. cheerful), uncheerful
Pertainyms of adj melancholy
Attributes of adj melancholy
Domain of adj melancholy
Domain Terms of adj melancholy
Familiarity of adj melancholy
melancholy used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj melancholy
melancholy
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