Dejected, defeatism, blue, and defeatist are all synonyms for melancholy. Cheerfulness and happiness are these antonyms of melancholy. And here are another 66 synonyms for melancholy.
Melancholy Synonyms
1. desolation
- Defeatism
- Dejectedness
- Dejection
- Depression
- Desolation
- Despondency
- Dispiritedness
- Doldrums
- Gloom
- Gloominess
- Low spirits
- Melancholia
- Misery
- Moroseness
- Pensiveness
- Pessimism
- Sadness
- Sorrow
- The dumps
- Unhappiness
- Woe
- The blues
2. sad
- Blue
- Defeatist
- Dejected
- Depressed
- Depressing
- Desolate
- Despondent
- Disconsolate
- Discouraged
- Dismal
- Dispirited
- Doleful
- Down in the dumps
- Down in the mouth
- Down
- Downcast
- Downhearted
- Funereal
- Gloomy
- Glum
- Heavy-hearted
- In low spirits
- In the doldrums
- Joyless
- Low-spirited
- Low
- Lugubrious
- Melancholic
- Miserable
- Morose
- Mournful
- Pensive
- Pessimistic
- Sad
- Sombre
- Sorrowful
- Sunk in gloom
- Unhappy
- Wistful
- Woebegone
- Woeful
- Wretched
- Morbid