ETYM Formerly a noun; e.g., Chaucer.
1. Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary.
2. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

Filled with or evoking sadness; SYN. mournful.

Reflecting gloom; SYN. gloomy, long-faced.

ETYM Latin melancholicus, Greek melas, -anos black + chole gall, bile.: cf. French mélancholique.
Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; unhappy.

1. Experiencing or showing or causing sorrow or unhappiness
2. Expressive of sorrow
3. Exemplary of misfortune