melancholy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
Types & categories
- sadness hypernym
- gloominess hyponym
- heavyheartedness hyponym
- pensiveness hyponym
- world-weariness hyponym
Sense 2 adjective
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
growing more melancholy every hour
Related & opposite
- melancholic derivation
- melancholia derivation
- sad similar to
Sense 3 noun
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Types & categories
- depression hypernym
Sense 4 adjective
grave or even gloomy in character
solemn and mournful music
Related & opposite
- graveness derivation
- gloominess derivation
- depressing similar to
Sense 5 noun
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Types & categories
- liquid body substance hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sadness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | gloominess |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | heavyheartedness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pensiveness |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | world-weariness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | melancholic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | melancholia |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | sad |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | depression |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | graveness |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | gloominess |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | depressing |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | liquid body substance |