[syn: melancholy, melancholic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Melancholic \Mel"an*chol`ic\, a. [L. melancholicus, Gr. ?: cf.
F. m['e]lancholique.]
Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected;
unhappy.
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Just as the melancholic eye
Sees fleets and armies in the sky. --Prior.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Melancholic \Mel"an*chol`ic\, n. [Obs.]
1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. --J. Spenser.
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2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. --Clarendon.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
melancholic
adj 1: characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
"growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic
smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
[syn: melancholy, melancholic]
n 1: someone subject to melancholia [syn: melancholic,
melancholiac]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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