Definition:

1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy; dismal 2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive 3. Grave looking; somber

Alternate Spellings and Forms:

melancholic, melancholiness, melancholily, melancholious, melancholist, melancholize, melancholists, melancholizes, melancholized