Melancholy?
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

LOW
The lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

SAD
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

BAD
Nonstandard; "so-called bad grammar"

WOE
Intense mournfulness

4 letters

PAIN
Something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"

MOOD
A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling; "whether he praised or cursed me depended on his temper at the time"; "he was in a bad humor"

PITY
The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

BLUE
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

PALL
Hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

GLUM
Moody and melancholic

DOWN
(American football) a complete play to advance the football; "you have four downs to gain ten yards"

FUNK
An earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar

5 letters

BLUES
A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

DOLOR
(poetry) painful grief

BLACK

GLOOM
A feeling of melancholy apprehension

ENNUI
The feeling of being bored by something tedious

SORRY
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

TRITE
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"

GRIEF
Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"

MERCY
The feeling that motivates compassion

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TRISTE

DEARLY
At a great cost; "he paid dearly for the food"; "this cost him dear"

SORROW
Something that causes great unhappiness; "her death was a great grief to John"

BUMPER
A glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast); "we quaffed a bumper of ale"

MISERY
A feeling of intense unhappiness; "she was exhausted by her misery and grief"

SOMBRE
Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

SOMBER
Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

DROPPY

DROOPY
Hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness)

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MALAISE
Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression)

DOLEFUL

DESPAIR
A state in which all hope is lost or absent; "in the depths of despair"; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute"; "courage born of desperation"

ELEGIAC
Expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

SADNESS
The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

DOLEFUL
Filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

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DEJECTED
Affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"

9 letters

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

DEJECTION
A state of melancholy depression

DEPRESSED
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

WOEBEGONE
Affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

10 letters

DESPONDENT
Without or almost without hope; "despondent about his failure"; "too heartsick to fight back"

INTHEDUMPS

11 letters

MELANCHOLIC
Someone subject to melancholia

DISTRESSING
Causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"

DESPERATION
Desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"

12 letters

HEAVYHEARTED
Depressed

DISCONSOLATE
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"

15 letters

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