憂鬱

• 読み: ゆううつ
• ローマ字: yūutsu
• 漢字の分解: 憂 (yu) — melancholy, worry; 鬱 (utsu) — dense, obstructed, depressed
• 発音: /juː.ɯ.tsɯ/

意味

Depression; melancholy; a pervasive sense of gloom, heaviness, or low spirits.

A noun (also used as a na-adjective: 憂鬱な) describing a persistent state of emotional heaviness — more diffuse than acute sadness and often linked to environment, weather, or circumstance. 梅雨が憂鬱だ (the rainy season is depressing) is a classic usage. While applicable to clinical depression in context, it is widely used colloquially for a general low mood.

例文

1. 雨が続く梅雨の時期は、なんとなく憂鬱な気分になる。
2. 月曜の朝が憂鬱に感じるのは、多くの社会人に共通する感覚だろう。
3. 彼女は長期にわたる憂鬱を抱え、ようやく心療内科に相談することにした。

使い方ガイド

場面: mood, weather, mental health, daily life

トーン: heavy

起源と歴史

Compound of 憂 (melancholy, worry, sorrow) and 鬱 (dense, obstructed — depicting thick growth that blocks light). Together they convey a heaviness of spirit that is dark and stifled, as if weighed down by something that cannot be cleared away.

文化的背景

時代: Classical

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal