Synonyms of the word

melancholic

• adj. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective…
• n. A person who is habitually melancholy.

depressive

• adj. Causing depression; dispiriting.
• adj. Affected by depression, depressed; dispirited; melancholic.
• adj. Relative to, characteristic of depression.
• n. A person suffering from depression.

melancholiac

• n. Synonym of melancholic.

melancholy

• adj. Affected with great sadness or depression.
• n. (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
• n. Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

sad

• adj. (heading) Emotionally negative.
• adj. (obsolete) Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
• adj. (obsolete) Steadfast, valiant.
• adj. (obsolete) Dignified, serious, grave.
• adj. (obsolete) Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
• adj. (slang) Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
• adj. (dialect) Soggy (to refer to pastries).
• adj. (obsolete) Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.