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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone subject to melancholia;
[syn: melancholic, melancholiac]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
- Example: "growing more melancholy every hour"
- Example: "her melancholic smile"
- Example: "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
[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]