Usually means: Expressive of sadness or gloom.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. melancholious: Collins English Dictionary
  2. melancholious: Wordnik
  3. melancholious: Wiktionary
  4. melancholious: Dictionary.com
  5. Melancholious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. melancholious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Melancholious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. melancholious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. melancholious: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Melancholious: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melancholious: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (obsolete) melancholy

Similar:
melancholly, atrabiliar, sorrowy, dernful, sollein, bleaky, dolefull, dismayful, mournfull, dolourous, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, joyful, happy, optimistic, buoyant

Types:
blue, sad, down, depressed, gloomy, pessimistic, negative, more...

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Similar:
melancholly, atrabiliar, sorrowy, dernful, sollein, bleaky, dolefull, dismayful, mournfull, dolourous, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, joyful, happy, optimistic, buoyant

Types:
blue, sad, down, depressed, gloomy, pessimistic, negative, more...



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