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n. someone subject to melancholia

adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

dejected

adj. affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

depressed, despairing, despondent, heartsick

adj. without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

discouraged, demoralized, disheartened

adj. made less hopeful or enthusiastic; "desperate demoralized people looking for work"; "felt discouraged by the magnitude of the problem"; "the disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest"

down, downcast, low, depressed, dispirited, downhearted, low-spirited

adj. low in spirits; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

unhappy, sad

adj. experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent; "unhappy over her departure"; "unhappy with her raise"; "after the argument they lapsed into an unhappy silence"; "had an unhappy time at school"; "the unhappy (or sad) news"; "he looks so sad"

desolate, forlorn, godforsaken, lorn, sad

adj. marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

disconsolate, inconsolable, unconsolable

adj. sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled; "inconsolable when her son died"

heartsick, brokenhearted, heartbroken

adj. full of sorrow

unhappy, saddening, doleful

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

gloomy, funereal, sepulchral

adj. suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones"

low

adj. less than normal in degree or intensity or amount; "low prices"; "the reservoir is low"

lugubrious

adj. excessively mournful

dreary, disconsolate, drear, joyless

adj. causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

sour, sullen, glum, moody, dour, glowering, morose, saturnine

adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

temperamental

adj. relating to or caused by temperament; "temperamental indifference to neatness"; "temperamental peculiarities"

somber, sombre

adj. grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

bittersweet

adj. tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending"

blue, heavyhearted, heavy-hearted

adj. depressed

depressive, gloomy, depressing, unhappy, saddening

adj. causing or suggestive of sorrow or gloom; "a gloomy outlook"; "gloomy news"

pensive, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

tragic

adj. very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction; "a tragic face"; "a tragic plight"; "a tragic accident"

tragicomic, tragicomical

adj. manifesting both tragic and comic aspects; "the tragicomic disparity...between's man's aspirations and his accomplishments"- B.R.Redman

yearning, wistful

adj. showing pensive sadness; "the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty"

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