melancholic

mel·an·chol·ic (m

n-k

adj.

1. Affected with or subject to melancholy.

2. Of or relating to melancholia.

melan·cholic n.

melan·choli·cal·ly adv.

melancholic [ˌmɛlənˈkɒlɪk]

adj

relating to or suffering from melancholy or melancholia

(Psychiatry) a person who suffers from melancholia

melancholically adv

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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

Translations

melancholic [ˌmelənˈkɒlɪk] ADJ → melancólico

melancholic

adj → melancholisch, schwermütig

n (liter) → Melancholiker(in) m(f)

melancholic [ˌmɛlənˈkɒlɪk] adj → malinconico/a

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Atrabiliary
Boccaccio
depressive
elegiac
glum
humor
Key
languish
melancholiac
melancholian
melancholy
pessimist
spiritless
Sully-Prudhomme

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.

The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context

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.

The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context

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

John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context

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