Hyphenation of melancholy

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word melancholy? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

melan-choly

Definitions of melancholy:

1.	A feeling of thoughtful sadness
2.	A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
3.	A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
4.	Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness Growing more melancholy every hour Her melancholic smile We acquainted him with the melancholy truth
5.	Grave or even gloomy in character Solemn and mournful music A suit of somber black A somber mood

Synonyms of melancholy:

adj	melancholic, sad
noun	sadness, unhappiness
noun	depression
noun	black bile, liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.