About The Word Melancholic
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Melancholic
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What's The Definition Of Melancholic?
[n] someone subject to melancholia
[adj] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" Synonyms | Synonyms for Melancholic: melancholiac | melancholy | sad Related Terms | Find terms related to Melancholic: ambivert | atrabiliar | atrabilious | blase | blue | brooder | choleric | cycloid | cyclothyme | cyclothymic | depressing | depressive | dispirited | ectomorph | endomorph | extrovert | fed-up | funky | gloomy Gus | good and tired | introvert | irked | jaded | joyless | life-weary | melancholiac | melancholy | mesomorph | mope | pensive | phlegmatic | sad | saddening | sanguine | satiated | schizoid | schizothyme | sick | sick of | sourpuss | splenetic | syntone | tired | tired of | tired of living | tired to death | triste | tristful | wearied | weariful | weary | weary unto death | wistful | world-weary See Also | depressive Melancholic In Webster's Dictionary \Mel"an*chol`ic\, a. [L. melancholicus, Gr. ?: cf.
F. m['e]lancholique.]
Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected;
unhappy.
Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in
the sky. --Prior.
\Mel"an*chol`ic\, n. [Obs.] 1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. --J. Spenser. 2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. --Clarendon. |
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