憂ゆう愁しゅう

noun

melancholy; gloom; grief

A literary noun for deep, often quiet sadness or melancholy. Not an everyday conversational word; more common in written or poetic contexts.

• 彼かれの顔かおには深ふかい憂ゆう愁しゅうの色いろが浮うかんでいた。

  A look of deep melancholy was on his face.

• その詩しは人じん生せいの憂ゆう愁しゅうを静しずかに歌うたっている。

  The poem quietly sings of the sorrows of life.