Melancholy vs. Wistful: What's the Difference?

Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.

Full of melancholy longing or wishful yearning

Pensive reflection or contemplation.

Expressing sadness or yearning

Black bile.

Full of longing or yearning.

An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.

Sad and thoughtful.

Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.

Longing; wishful; desirous.

Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom

Full of thought; eagerly attentive; meditative; musing; pensive; contemplative.

Pensive; thoughtful.

Full of longing or unfulfilled desire;

(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

Showing pensive sadness;

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Ill nature.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

Favorable to meditation; somber.

A feeling of thoughtful sadness

A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;