Melancholy vs. Sad

Melancholyadjective

(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.

Melancholynoun

(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

Melancholynoun

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

Melancholynoun

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Melancholynoun

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

Melancholynoun

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Melancholynoun

Ill nature.

Melancholyadjective

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

Melancholyadjective

Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

Melancholyadjective

Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

Melancholyadjective

Favorable to meditation; somber.

Melancholynoun

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

Melancholynoun

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Melancholynoun

a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Melancholyadjective

characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;

Melancholynoun

a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause

Melancholynoun

another term for melancholia (as a mental condition)

Melancholynoun

another term for black bile

Melancholyadjective

having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive

Melancholyadjective

causing or expressing sadness; depressing

Sadadjective

(heading) Emotionally negative.

Sadadjective

Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

Sadadjective

Appearing sorrowful.

Sadadjective

Causing sorrow; lamentable.

Sadadjective

Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

Sadadjective

Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.

Sadadjective

(slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

Sadadjective

(dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).

Sadadjective

(obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

Sadadjective

Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.

Sadadjective

Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.

Sadadjective

Dull; grave; dark; somber; - said of colors.

Sadadjective

Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.

Sadadjective

Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.

Sadadjective

Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune.

Sadadjective

Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.

Sadverb

To make sorrowful; to sadden.

Sadnoun

Seasonal affective disorder.

Sadadjective

experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness;

Sadadjective

of things that make you feel sad;

Sadadjective

bad; unfortunate;

Sadadjective

feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy

Sadadjective

causing or characterized by sorrow or regret; unfortunate and regrettable

Sadadjective

pathetically inadequate or unfashionable

Sadadjective

(of dough) heavy through having failed to rise.