A plurality say melancholy is blue. Click a color to add your vote.
Melancholy is blue because…
“Blue is a nice color. It mainly means sad, and although I feel happy looking at it, I do associate it with that gloomy, depressing feeling.”
“Melancholy is blue because it’s a cold feeling.”
“The word itself makes me sleepy, and sleep is blue. ”
“Blue is sad. ‘Blue’ can be a synonym for sad. Sadness from the ‘Inside Out’ franchise is blue.”
“Blue is sadness.”
“Melancholy is blue because Megamind mispronounces itm and he’s blue.”
“It’s just a sad color.”
“Melancholy is blue because melancholy is sad and blue represents sadness.”
Melancholy is grey because…
“Sad violin and grey filter on videos.”
“Dull and empty of feeling.
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“It represents a drab, dreary day.”
“It’s a foggy-headed, heavy kind of feeling.”
“Melancholy reminds me of light rain on a grey and sad day.”
“Melancholy is empty, not happy, but not sad. Grey isn’t black, but it’s not white either.”
“Sad and dull.”
“It’s a bland, monotonous, empty emotion.”
“To me it’s a empty sort of color, so grey.”
“When I think of melancholy I think of a grey storm cloud raining on somebody.”
“Often when you feel melancholy, you feel numb, an in between, rather than fully sad. ”
“Melancholy is the absence of colour, and the lack of willpower to commit to a pure shade.
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Melancholy is black because…
“While blue does represent sadness, black represents something darker and more depressing, which I believe fits ‘melancholy’ a bit more.”
“Despair. Endless abyss.”
“Because it’s dull and gloomy and nothing—like black.”
“I was torn between blue and black. But while blue represents sadness, melancholy represents a deeper, more specific emotion that is far more akin to black.”
“I feel like melancholy feels like being unable to find any figurative light or color in the moment, and black is literally the absence of light.”
“Melancholy is like depression, and depression is black.”
Melancholy is purple because…
“Blue is just plain sad, purple is for more complexity.”
“Blue is sadness; purple is the next best thing for something more intricate and complex than sadness.”
“There’s a painting called Melancholy, and it has a purplish hue.
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Melancholy is brown because…
“Evokes feelings of boredom, sadness, decay, and isolation. Like brown.”
“Melancholy is brown like the blurred and wistful memories that cause it.”
“Brown is sad and dull.”
Melancholy is orange because…
“Like Autumn, which feels melancholy.”
Melancholy is white because…
“White is empty like melancholy, also the word melancholy reminds me of cauliflower.”