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melancholy


melancholy - noun

  • a feeling of thoughtful sadness
  • a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
  • a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

  • melancholy - adjective

    • characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
    • grave or even gloomy in character

    melancholy - thesaurus

    melancholic   somber American English spelling   sombre British English spelling  

    Scrabble score for melancholy

    m is 3 e is 1 l is 1 a is 1 n is 1 c is 3 h is 4 o is 1 l is 1 y is 4
    Scrabble score = 20

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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