Melancholy

Melancholy

noun: melancholy

1. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

"an air of melancholy surrounded him"

synonyms: desolation, sadness, pensiveness, woe, sorrow, melancholia; More

unhappiness, dejection, depression, gloom, gloominess, misery, low spirits, moroseness, doldrums, defeatism, pessimism, dejectedness, dispiritedness, despondency;

informal the dumps, the blues

"a feeling of melancholy descended on him"

antonyms: cheerfulness, happiness

adjective: melancholy

1. having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive.

"she felt a little melancholy"

synonyms: sad, sorrowful, desolate, melancholic, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, pensive