melancholy

adj : characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing

more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile";

"we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" [syn: {melancholic}]

n 1: a feeling of thoughtful sadness

2: a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

3: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys

or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy [syn: {black

bile}]