Emotions
Synonyms for melancholy
Synonyms for melancholy: dolor and gloom. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for melancholy
Interchangeable with melancholy in this sense
Audited under melancholy's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one melancholy carries in that sense.
- dolornoun, in the sense "a deep, pensive sadness"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name melancholy as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- gloomgloom is a noun in the sense "a feeling of depression or low spirits"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under melancholy and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a deep, pensive sadness
A quiet melancholy settled over the house after the piano was sold.
The true synonym
dolor
Same sentence, swapped: A quiet dolor settled over the house after the piano was sold.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- excitement
- hunger
- confusion
Where melancholy turns up in the game
melancholy is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play melancholy
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so melancholy reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from emotions at Summit outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. melancholy carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.