Melancholy : synonyms and lexical field

Synonyms > Synonyms beginning with M > Melancholy

Looking for words with meaning close to 'melancholy': discover synonyms for the word melancholy, such as melancholic or sad.

The lexical field offers related words, which refer to the same idea, the same concept as melancholy. It is common for a word to have several meanings. In this case, the context of the word helps to determine its correct meaning.
Example of words in the same lexical field as "": black bile and melancholic.

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Synonyms for melancholy sorted by degree of synonymy

List of synonyms for melancholy Degree of synonymy of melancholy Frequency in the language

melancholic
29898 0.10

sad
29891 63.37

blue
19963 102.39

gloomy
19914 2.41

depressed
19894 16.27

woe
19890 2.33

acute
19880 2.94

nostalgic
19871 0

absence
19831 6.31

athymia
19821 0

melancholia
10047 0.14

mournfulness
10047 0

mournful
10047 0.49

pensiveness
10047 1.00

sorrowful
10047 0.39

wistful
10047 0.18

wistfulness
10047 0.02

morose
10047 0.35

moroseness
10047 0

Lexical field of "melancholy"

black bile
melancholic
sad
blue
gloomy
depressed
woe
acute
nostalgic
absence
athymia
melancholia
mournfulness
mournful
pensiveness
sorrowful
wistful
wistfulness
morose
moroseness
sadness
lugubrious
gloominess
somberness
somber
doleful
pensive
sombreness
languor
elegiac
ruefulness
sombre
forlornness
depressive
ominousness
sorrowfulness
sullenness
morbidness
melancholly
dreaminess
dejection
sorrow
maudlin
languidness
cheerlessness
glumness
lonesomeness
disquietude
forlorn
morbid