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(adj)
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
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Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Of a blue hue.
Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
Unhappy; despondent.
(n)
Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
Intense; sensitive; sharp.
Of, having, or relating to nostalgia.
A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship
(medicine) The absence of emotion; morbid impassivity.
A depressing, despondent, or melancholic atmosphere.
A state of melancholy or depression; low spirits, the blues.
The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
The state or quality of being somber.
The state or condition of being gloomy.
The property of being lugubrious.
The state or condition of being dispirited.
The property of being mournful.
The characteristic of being doleful; sadness.
The state or characteristic of being wistful.
Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
A thoughtful or reflective state, especially if sad or melancholic.
(American spelling) Alternative spelling of dolour. [(chiefly uncountable, literary) Anguish, grief, misery, or sorrow.]
(usually in the plural, informal) A feeling of sadness or depression.
A state of despondence or melancholy.
(medicine, obsolete) A vitiated state of the humours, or bodily fluids.
(modern usage) Any bodily disorder, especially regarding the blood.
Alternative form of cacochymia. [(medicine, obsolete) A vitiated state of the humours, or bodily fluids.]
(medicine, archaic, rare) A depressed state of mind.
(medicine) A disease that affects only one organ or function.
(pathology) A pigmentation of tissue.
(now rare) A state of adverse or unhealthy atmospheric conditions.
Cloudy diffused matter such as mist, steam or fumes suspended in the air.
A slant in an individual or a group, intellectualized humour, bad temper directed against someone or something
(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
The passage of dark, tarry stools containing blood, a result of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
The disease of yellow fever itself.
Alternative form of hematosis. [sanguification; the conversion of chyle into blood]
Alternative form of cachaemia. [(medicine, obsolete) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.]
(medicine, pathology) Deficiency or absence of bile.
(medicine) The presence of bile in the blood.
Alternative form of cholaemia. [(medicine) A condition caused by the presence of excess bile in the blood, sometimes leading to somnolence and coma.]
(archaic) Sleeping sickness.
A cruel and remorseless person.
(medicine, uncommon) Synonym of melasma.
Alternative form of ichorhaemia. [(medicine, dated) infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances]
The condition of being monochromatic
Synonym of melanosis.
A morbid fear of cholera.
Love of music
(pathology) An excessive secretion of bile
Aversion to music.
An unbalanced state of mind; a mental or glandular disorder as from a malfunctioning thymus gland.
(medicine, obsolete) A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.
Alternative spelling of haemobilia. [(medicine) Bleeding originating in the liver: bleeding into the bile ducts.]
A disease of apples and pears, characterised by dark spots of dead cells, believed to be caused by calcium deficiency.
(medicine) Lack of blood.
(euphemistic) Mental illness.
(hematology) The state of being hyperchromic, i.e. having a higher-than-normal amount of haemoglobin in the red blood cells.
(pathology) The shedding of tears containing blood
(obsolete) A disease of cattle, with hemoglobinuria.
(medicine) A morbid flow of bile.
(pathology) A lack of bile pigments in the urine
Obsolete form of hematemesis. [(American spelling, medicine) Blood within vomitus; the vomiting of blood.]
(medicine) The inability to see clearly in bright light; day blindness.
(somewhat dated) Any disease, illness, or condition involving loss of blood from the body (e.g. menstruation, hemorrhages, haemophilia, etc.)
(pathology) A complication of malaria in which red blood cells burst in the bloodstream, consequently coloring the urine dark red or black.
(colloquial) nervous depression
Compulsion; mania.
A black pigment found in tumours of horses.
(medicine) Bleeding originating in the liver: bleeding into the bile ducts.
The flow or loss of blood from a damaged blood vessel.
The arterialization of the blood in the lungs; the formation of blood in general; haematogenesis
(medicine, dated) infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances
A feeling of love or strong attachment.
(medicine) Absence of pigmentation, especially in the skin or blood
(pathology) The presence of bile in the pleural cavity
(rare) aversion to being happy
(medicine) An excess of bile pigments in the blood; jaundice.
(historical, medicine) The archaic practice of treating illness by removing some blood, believed to be tainted, from the stricken person.
Waste from domestic toilets; water containing fecal matter.
The act or an instance of eliminating contamination: a purification, a cleansing, particularly:
(medicine) Deficiency of bile secretion