Melancholy

1. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
2. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
3. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
4. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
5. Favorable to meditation; somber.
6. Ill nature.
7. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
8. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.