melancholy

a feeling of being sad and lonely, especially when you are thinking about something that has happened in the past

melancolía, tristeza, nostalgia

• a feeling of melancholy

Collocations feeling of melancholy · sense of melancholy

• She was overcome with a sense of melancholy.

  Ella quedó abrumada por un sentimiento de melancolía.

a person who often feels sad and lonely, especially when thinking about the past or about things that have gone wrong

persona melancólica, tristeza crónica

• a melancholy person

Collocations melancholy person · melancholic individual

• He is a rather melancholy figure in the literary world.

  Es una figura bastante melancólica en el mundo literario.