Meaning of MELANCHOLIC
| Pronunciation: | | `melun'kâlik
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | melancholiac, melancholy, sad |
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| | See Also: | | depressive | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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