Word.ws English Dictionary

melancholia

melancholia noun: deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.

Noun

melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)

  1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
  2. depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

melancholia meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Indonesian and Vietnamese

melancholia in Tamil

உளநோய், துக்கபீடை, உள ஆற்றலிழப்பு நோய், உளச்சோர்வுப் பிணி, சாகாப்பு

melancholia in Arabic

Translations
سَوْدَاوِيَّة sawdāwiyya

melancholia in Indonesian

Translations
melankolia

melancholia in Vietnamese

Translations
trầm cảm

Synonyms of melancholia

25 more synonymsFewer synonyms

All synonyms of melancholia

Forms of melancholia

pluralmelancholias

Origin of melancholia

From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Doublet of melancholy.

Words formed from melancholia

Words that rhyme with melancholia

Questions about melancholia

What does melancholia mean?
Melancholia means deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.
What is melancholia in Tamil?
Melancholia in Tamil is உளநோய், துக்கபீடை, உள ஆற்றலிழப்பு நோய். See Melancholia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is melancholia?
Melancholia is a noun.
What is the plural of melancholia?
The plural of melancholia is melancholias.

Words near melancholia in the dictionary

  1. melanated
  2. melanates
  3. Melanau
  4. Melanaus
  5. Melanchlaeni
  6. melancholia
  7. melancholiac
  8. melancholiacs
  9. melancholian
  10. melancholians
  11. melancholias

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: melancholia (page history and authors); melancholia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-us-melancholia.oga, LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-melancholia.wav.

Cite this entry: “melancholia.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/melancholia. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.