The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 letter word SAD , but the solution may also be SOMBER which is one of the most recent solution (2024 in New York Times).
Melancholy crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| SAD | 39 % | 3 |
| BLUE | 9 % | 4 |
| SOMBER | 7 % | 6 |
| SADNESS | 7 % | 7 |
| TRISTE | 6 % | 6 |
| GLOOM | 5 % | 5 |
| ELEGIAC | 4 % | 7 |
| DREAR | 2 % | 5 |
| GLUM | 2 % | 4 |
| LOW | 2 % | 3 |
| DOLEFUL | 2 % | 7 |
| WISTFUL | 2 % | 7 |
| SORROW | 2 % | 6 |
| DOLOR | 1 % | 5 |
| SOMBRE | 1 % | 6 |
| DISMAL | 1 % | 6 |
| INTHEDUMPS | 1 % | 10 |
| TRAGIC | 1 % | 6 |
| DOWN | 1 % | 4 |
| PINKISHSHEEPDOG | 1 % | 15 |
| GLOOMY | 1 % | 6 |
| BLUES | 1 % | 5 |
| PALL | 1 % | 4 |
| DUMPS | 1 % | 5 |
| WOE | 1 % | 3 |
| DISCNSLATE | 1 % | 10 |
Why may SOMBER be the right solution?
"SOMBER" is the right solution because it is a synonym for "melancholy," conveying a sense of sadness or gloom.
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Melancholy
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- black bile
- melancholic
- sad
- blue
- gloomy
- depressed
- woe
- acute
- nostalgic
- absence
- athymia
- melancholia
Crossword Answer definitions
SAD verb- To make melancholy; to sadden or grieve (someone).
- (heading) Emotionally negative.
- Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
- Steadfast, valiant.
- Dignified, serious, grave.
- Naughty; troublesome; wicked.
- Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
- Soggy (to refer to pastries).
- Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
- The letter ص in the Arabic script.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result SAD
More clues leading to the result BLUE
- "Am I __"
- A primary color
- Dejected
- Like Carl Perkins's suede shoes
- Sad
- Babe's color
- Depressed
- Down in the dumps
- Down
- Like Smurfs
More clues leading to the result SOMBER
- Gloomily dark
- Dead serious
- Hardly upbeat
- Grave
- Melancholy
- Dark and dull
- Quite serious
- Gloomy
- Mournful
- Extremely serious
More clues leading to the result SADNESS
More clues leading to the result TRISTE
- Sorrowful
- Sad, on the Seine
- Sad
- Wistful
- Melancholy
- Sibelius's "Valse ___"
- "Valse ___": Sibelius
- Sad, to Sagan
- Sartre's "sorrowful"
- Sad, in Saint-Tropez
More clues leading to the result GLOOM
- Bad outlook
- Murkiness
- Murk
- Melancholy
- Low spirits
- Doom's counterpart
- Depression
- Despondency
- Darkness
- Doom partner
More clues leading to the result ELEGIAC
- Mournful
- Like funeral dirges
- Sorrowful
- Plaintive
- Melancholy
- Melancholy.
- Like Thomas Gray's finest work.
- Plaintive.
- ___ stanza.
- Plaintive verse
More clues leading to the result DREAR
- Dark and gloomy
- Dismal
- Gloomy, in poetry
- Gloomy, in Brit Lit
- Lacking cheer, poetically
- Gloominess
- Dismal, to Donne
- Bleak
- Gloomy, poetically
- Bleak, to Blake
More clues leading to the result GLUM
- Down in the dumps
- Grinchy
- Saturnine
- Down at the mouth
- Down in the mouth
- Moody and melancholy
- Not eggsactly eggsuberant
- Dejected
- Morose
- Gravely morose
More clues leading to the result LOW
- Like some blows
- Girl Scout founder
- Immoral
- First gear
- Contemptible
- In need of supplies
- Like a bass
- Underhanded
- With 39-Across, like some cigarettes
- At sea level
More clues leading to the result DOLEFUL
More clues leading to the result WISTFUL
- Full of yearning
- Pensively sad
- Inclined to pine
- Melancholy
- Filled with longing.
- Yearning
- Pensive
- Sadly pensive
- Hung up on what could have been
More clues leading to the result SORROW
- Grief
- It'll get you down
- Feeling after a loss
- Cause for tears
- Blueness
- Tear inducer
- Feeling of regret
- Heartache
- What turns you blue
- "Parting is such sweet ___"
More clues leading to the result DOLOR
- Sorrow
- Extreme sadness
- Extreme sorrow
- Grief
- Intense grief
- Painful grief
- Great sadness
- Sadness
- Tremendous grief
- Heartbreak
More clues leading to the result SOMBRE
- Dismal.
- Without light or brightness.
- Melancholy.
- Grave.
- Gloomy.
- Gloomy in Glouster
- Funereal, in Folkestone
- Gloomy, in Gloucester
More clues leading to the result DISMAL
More clues leading to the result INTHEDUMPS
- Blue
- Depressed.
- Where sad trash collectors get together?
- The ailing trash collector was ...
- Melancholy
- Cliche: blue
More clues leading to the result TRAGIC
- Disastrous
- Dreadful
- Very sad
- Like a Sophocles play
- Terribly sad
- Like certain flaws
- Like Hamlet
- Like "Macbeth"
- Ill-fated
- Like "Romeo and Juliet"
More clues leading to the result DOWN
- Fluffy feathers
- "Black Hawk ___" (2001 Ridley Scott movie)
- Like this answer
- See above
- Bummed
- This way
- Like this clue's answer
- The other way?
- Out partner
- Melancholy
More clues leading to the result PINKISHSHEEPDOG
More clues leading to the result GLOOMY
- Emo
- Under a cloud
- Dark
- Depressing
- Down in the dumps
- Like Eeyore's outlook
- Pessimistic
- Downcast.
- Melancholy.
- Like Poe settings
More clues leading to the result BLUES
- James Cotton forte
- Music genre
- Waters genre
- Birth of the __
- Robert Cray's bag
- W.C. Handy's realm
- W.C. Handy's genre
- The B in R&B
- Bessie Smith's genre
- Rhythm's partner
More clues leading to the result PALL
- Get boring
- Gloomy atmosphere
- Gloom producer
- Become boring
- Feeling of gloom
- Gloom
- Gloomy effect
- Velvet spread
- Shroud
- Mood of gloom
More clues leading to the result DUMPS
- Jilts
- Unloads
- Down in the __
- Unceremoniously breaks up with
- Gets rid of
- Gets rid of rudely
- Deep-sixes
- Disposes of
- Melancholy.
- Unloads.
More clues leading to the result WOE
- "__ is me!
- Hand-wringer's word
- Misfortune
- Deep distress
- Heartache
- Wednesday's child is full of it
- Grief
- Blue state?
- Misery
- Ailment