Melancholy vs. Sorrow
Difference Between Melancholy and Sorrow
Melancholynoun
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
Sorrownoun
Mental suffering caused by loss, disappointment, or misfortune, or an instance of this
tried to assuage her sorrows.Melancholynoun
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
Sorrownoun
A source or cause of sorrow; a misfortune
"I must struggle through my sorrows and difficulties as I can" (Jane Austen).Melancholynoun
Black bile.
Sorrownoun
Expression of sorrow, or an instance of this
I listened to his sorrows.Melancholynoun
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.
Sorrowverb
To feel or express sorrow.
Melancholyadjective
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
Sorrownoun
(uncountable) unhappiness, woe
Melancholyadjective
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom
a letter with some melancholy news.Sorrownoun
(countable) usually in plural An instance or cause of unhappiness.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.Melancholyadjective
Pensive; thoughtful.
Sorrowverb
(intransitive) To feel or express grief.
Melancholyadjective
(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Melancholy people don't talk much.Sorrowverb
(transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Melancholynoun
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
Sorrownoun
an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement;
he tried to express his sorrow at her lossMelancholynoun
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Sorrownoun
sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment;
he drank to drown his sorrowshe wrote a note expressing his regretto his rue, the error cost him the gameMelancholynoun
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
Sorrownoun
something that causes great unhappiness;
her death was a great grief to JohnMelancholynoun
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Sorrownoun
the state of being sad;
she tired of his perpetual sadnessMelancholynoun
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Sorrowverb
feel grief; eat one's heart out
Melancholyadjective
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
growing more melancholy every hourher melancholic smilewe acquainted him with the melancholy truth
