Difference between Sad and Melancholy

SAD vs MELANCHOLY: NOUN

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
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
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
Ill nature.
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Synonyms Hypochondria, gloominess, despondency.
Bitterness of feeling; ill nature.
Sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
A gloomy state of mind, particularly when habitual or of considerable duration; depression of spirits arising from grief or natural disposition; dejection; sadness. Also, in technical use, melancholia.
Same as melancholia; in old use, insanity of any kind.
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.
Black bile.
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow.
Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
Heavy bread.
Dark-hued; somber.
Deplorable or inadequate; sorry.
Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing.
Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness.
Bad; unfortunate
Of things that make you feel sad
Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
Steadfast, valiant.
Soggy (to refer to pastries).
Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Dignified, serious, grave.
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Appearing sorrowful.
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

Grave or even gloomy in character
Affected with great sadness or depression.
Favorable to meditation; somber.
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive.
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Pensive; thoughtful.
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom.
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected. : sad.

Close; compact; hard; stiff; not light or soft.
Heavy; soggy; doughy; that has not risen well: as, sad bread.
Weighty; important; momentous.
Strong; stout: said of a person or an animal.
Settled; fixed; resolute.
Steadfast; constant; trusty; faithful.
Sober; serious; grave; sedate; discreet; responsible; wise; sage.
Sorrowful; melancholy; mournful; dejected.
Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
Having the external appearance of sorrow; gloomy; downcast: as, a sad countenance.
Distressing; grievous; disastrous: as, a sad accident; a sad disappointment.
Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue.
Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown.
Unfortunate
Bad
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Depressed, cheerless, desponding, disconsolate.
Dire, deplorable.
Expressing or marked by sorrow or melancholy.
Firm; solid; fixed.
Full; having had one's fill; sated; surfeited; hence, satiated; wearied; tired; sick.
To sadden; make sorrowful; grieve.
To strengthen; establish; confirm.
To make firm.
Closely; firmly: as, to lie sad.
Soberly; prudently; discreetly.
Strongly; stiffly.

Produced by melancholia or madness of any kind.
Affected by depression of spirits; depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy.
Given to contemplation; thoughtful; pensive. See I., 3.
Producing or fitted to produce sadness or gloom; sad; mournful: as, a melancholy fact; a melancholy event.
Grave or gloomy in character; suggestive of melancholy; somber.

Bad, Miserable, Mournful, Deplorable, Melancholy, Pitiful, Lamentable, Sadden, Sorrowful, Depressing, Bittersweet, Tragic, Sorry, Distressing, Saddening

Melancholious, Wistfulness, Mournful, Elegiac, Athymia, Absence, Blue, Acute, Woe, Depressed, Gloomy, Nostalgic, Black bile, Sad, Melancholic

Bad, Miserable, Mournful, Deplorable, Melancholy, Pitiful, Lamentable, Sadden, Sorrowful, Depressing, Bittersweet, Tragic, Sorry, Distressing, Saddening

Pathos, Melancholia, Melancholious, Wistfulness, Mournful, Elegiac, Absence, Blue, Acute, Depressed, Gloomy, Nostalgic, Black bile, Sad, Melancholic

When Jessica feels sad, she likes to listen to sad songs, which somehow helps her feel better.
And so these terrible accidents were happening, horrible sad, sad accidents.
Sad, so sad that American Congress, Senate and Presidents did allow these horrific acts to be unleashed on Africans during slavery.
Prisoners sad, he asked them, why is your face more sad than ordinary?
Why do people listen to sad songs when they are sad?
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Eating the SAD diet literally makes you sad.
He should be sad because she was sad.
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Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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SOPHOMORES Melancholy Students Heading Home JOSEPH FISC HER.
Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy: Eric GAmazon.
It protects us from the dependency and melancholy.
Giussanni goes on to explore melancholy a bit more extensively, positing a different kind of melancholy, in addition to the one he praises.
And the reason why I called it melancholy was because traditionally, melancholy is the inability to get over something.
Rain is a versatile literary device, but is most commonly used to signify melancholy, renewal or melancholy.
Treatise of Melancholy do suggest that Shakespeare conceived hishero as suffering from melancholy.