mel·an·chol·ic

(mĕl′ən-kŏl′ĭk)

adj.

1. Affected with or subject to melancholy.

2. Of or relating to melancholia.

mel′an·chol′ic n.

mel′an·chol′i·cal·ly adv.

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melancholic

(ˌmɛlənˈkɒlɪk)

adj

relating to or suffering from melancholy or melancholia

(Psychiatry) a person who suffers from melancholia

ˌmelanˈcholically adv

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

mel•an•chol•ic

(ˌmɛl ənˈkɒl ɪk)

adj.

1. of, pertaining to, or affected with melancholia.

2. affected with melancholy; gloomy.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin < Greek]

mel`an•chol′i•cal•ly, adv.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	melancholic - someone subject to melancholia melancholiac depressive - someone suffering psychological depression
Adj.	1.	melancholic - characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" melancholy sad - experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

melancholic

adjective

In low spirits:

blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful.

Idiom: down at the mouth.

Translations

melancholisch Melancholiker Melancholikerin

apeamelankolinen

mélancolique sombre

melankoličan

malinconico

melankolisk

melancholic

[ˌmelənˈkɒlɪk] ADJ → melancólico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

melancholic

adj → melancholisch, schwermütig

n (liter) → Melancholiker(in) m(f)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

melancholic

[ˌmɛlənˈkɒlɪk] adj → malinconico/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

mel·an·chol·ic

a. melancólico-a, rel. a la melancolía.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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Edward Alleyn, from the portrait preserved at [78] his noble foundation at Dulwich, like a fine Holbein, figures, in blent strength and delicacy, as a genial, or perhaps jovial, soul, finding time for sentiment,--Prynne (included, we suppose, in this company, like the skull at the feast) as a likable if somewhat melancholic young man; while Garrick and his wife playing cards, after Zoffany, present a pair of just very nice young people.

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It represented a woman, a young mother, flinging her little son over her head with one hand and catching him in the other, and I was entertaining myself on the hearth-rug with this pretty domestic scene when I heard an unwonted sound from Porthos, and, looking up, I saw that noble and melancholic countenance on the broad grin.

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(And who has not seen the weeping drunk, the melancholic drunk?

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Which hateth the consumptive populace-dogs, and all the ill-constituted, sullen brood:--praised be this spirit of all free spirits, the laughing storm, which bloweth dust into the eyes of all the melanopic and melancholic!

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There was no change of expression in the dark melancholic face.

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The captain was a clever, melancholic man, who had no unusual grip on his crew.

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