Melancholic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Affected with or subject to melancholy.
  • adj. Of or relating to melancholia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
  • n. A person who is habitually melancholy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
  • n. One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
  • n. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Affected with melancholy; gloomy; hypochondriac.
  • Produced by melancholy; expressive or suggestive of melancholy; somber; gloomy; mournful: as, melancholic strains.
  • Producing melancholy; unfortunate; causing sorrow.
  • n. One who is affected with mental gloom; a hypochondriac; in pathology, one who suffers from melancholia; a melancholiac.
  • n. A gloomy state of mind.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone subject to melancholia
  • adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  • Equivalent
    sad   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    depressive   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    depressed    melancholy    dejected    unhappy   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    alcoholic    anabolic    bucolic    diastolic    folic    frolic    hyperbolic    metabolic    nonalcoholic    parabolic   
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