n.
Function: adjective
1
Synonyms: SAD 1, heavyhearted, mournful, saddened, sorry, unhappy
2 expressing or suggesting sorrow or mourning FF1C; the gloomy day led him to a melancholy train of thought FF1E;
Synonyms: doleful, dolesome, dolorous, lamentable, lugubrious, moanful, mournful, plaintive, rueful, sighful, sorrowful, wailful, woeful; compare SAD 1 , SAD 2
Related Words: pensive, reflective, thoughtful; discomposing, disquieting, disturbing, perturbing; dismal, dreary, funereal, gloomy, lachrymose, somber, sombrous
Contrasted Words: cheerful, glad, happy, joyful, joyous, lighthearted; gay, lively, vivacious
3
Synonyms: SAD 2, depressing, joyless, melancholic, mournful, saddening, triste