Usually means: Pervasive sadness, gloom, or despondency.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word melancholy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. melancholy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. melancholy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. melancholy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. melancholy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. melancholy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Melancholy, melancholy: Wordnik
  7. melancholy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. melancholy: Wiktionary
  9. melancholy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. melancholy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. melancholy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. melancholy: Dictionary.com
  13. melancholy (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. melancholy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Melancholy (Edvard Munch), Melancholy (album), Melancholy (disambiguation), Melancholy (novel), Melancholy (song), Melancholy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Melancholy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. melancholy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. melancholy: Rhymezone
  19. melancholy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. melancholy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. melancholy: Free Dictionary
  22. melancholy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. melancholy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. melancholy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Melancholy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melancholy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melancholy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. melancholy: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. melancholy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. melancholy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See melancholies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
noun:  Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
adjective:  (literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.

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