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melancholic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.

Meanings

  1. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
    • Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky. 1718, Mat[thew] Prior, “Alma: Or, The Progress of the Mind”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], and John Barber […], →OCLC:
    • But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings. 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 268:
  2. (dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
  3. (qualifier:classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
melancholick alternative, obsolete lexicographic
melancholicke alternative, obsolete lexicographic
most melancholic Degree=Sup lexicographic
more melancholic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
melancholike alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Deriveds

unmelancholic · antimelancholic · melancholically · nonmelancholic

Synonyms

sullen · querulous · dolesome · lugubrious · forlorn · wretched · disheartened · morose · dejected · glum · heavy-hearted · miserable · depressed · elegiac · elegious · lachrymose · jawfallen · saturnine · chopfallen · sorrow-ridden · miserable · passionate · cut up · melancholy · despondent · moody · crestfallen · downsome · gloomy · heartsore · downhearted · low-spirited · Plutonic · chapfallen · despondent · melancholic · bummed out · uncheerful · cheerless · blue · doleful · sorrowful · downcast · saddened · threnetic · woe · sad · dull · infelicitous · solemn · spiritless · woeful · lumpish · unconsolable · Plutonian · mopey · tristful · disgruntled · joyless · threnetical · down in the dumps · damp · sorrowsome · dismal · blitheless · atrabiliary · plaintive · dispirited · wistful · shattered · lamentful · triste · unhappy · woebegone · down · down in the mouth · mournful · inconsolable · unlively · uncheery · grieving · ruthful · sombre · low · heartsick · atrabilious · disconsolate · grief-stricken

Translations (80)

gl melancólico (filled with or affected by melancholy) · he דכדוך (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ru меланхоли́чный (filled with or affected by melancholy) · mi kainatu (filled with or affected by melancholy) · cs těžkomyslný (filled with or affected by melancholy) · id melankolis (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ka სევდიანი (filled with or affected by melancholy) · la maestus (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd dòlasachd (filled with or affected by melancholy) · el μελαγχολικός (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd èislean (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sh snuždenost (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd dubhachas (filled with or affected by melancholy) · tt меланхолик (filled with or affected by melancholy) · pt melancólico (filled with or affected by melancholy) · grc σκυθρωπός (filled with or affected by melancholy) · it malinconico (filled with or affected by melancholy) · fr mélancolique (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ar سَوْدَاوِيّ (filled with or affected by melancholy) · he מלנכולי (filled with or affected by melancholy) · fi haikea (filled with or affected by melancholy) · nl droevig (filled with or affected by melancholy) · nb melankolsk (filled with or affected by melancholy) · lb melancholesch (filled with or affected by melancholy) · nl melancholisch (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd tùirse (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd mulad (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sh utučenost (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd truime (filled with or affected by melancholy) · pl melancholijny (filled with or affected by melancholy) · nb sørgmodig (filled with or affected by melancholy) · izh alakuloin (filled with or affected by melancholy) · fi melankolinen (filled with or affected by melancholy) · cmn 憂鬱 /忧郁 (filled with or affected by melancholy) · tr kederli (filled with or affected by melancholy) · nn sørgmodig (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ja 憂鬱な (filled with or affected by melancholy) · tl lukulok (filled with or affected by melancholy) · mi ruku popoi (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ga dúchroíoch (filled with or affected by melancholy) · cs trudnomyslný (filled with or affected by melancholy) · eo melankolia (filled with or affected by melancholy) · nn melankolsk (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sh снужденост (filled with or affected by melancholy) · it melancolico (filled with or affected by melancholy) · fi alakuloinen (filled with or affected by melancholy) · uk меланхо́лічний (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ro melancolic (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sh утученост (filled with or affected by melancholy) · hu búskomor (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sa खिन्न (filled with or affected by melancholy) · gd cianalas (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ka ნაღვლიანი (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ang drēoriġ (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ru меланхоли́ческий (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ja 鬱病の (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ca melancòlic (filled with or affected by melancholy) · de schwermütig (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ca malenconiós (filled with or affected by melancholy) · ia melancholia (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sv melankolisk (filled with or affected by melancholy) · fi surumielinen (filled with or affected by melancholy) · bg меланхоличен (filled with or affected by melancholy) · tr hüzünlü (filled with or affected by melancholy) · pl melancholiczny (filled with or affected by melancholy) · de melancholisch (filled with or affected by melancholy) · fi apea (filled with or affected by melancholy) · da melankolsk (filled with or affected by melancholy) · vo glumaladäl (filled with or affected by melancholy) · cs melancholický (filled with or affected by melancholy) · cs zádumčivý (filled with or affected by melancholy) · grc δύσθυμος (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sh melankòličan (filled with or affected by melancholy) · sco dowie (filled with or affected by melancholy) · cmn 多愁善感 (filled with or affected by melancholy) · mi matapōuri (filled with or affected by melancholy) · la melancholicus (filled with or affected by melancholy) · mi rāwakiwaki (filled with or affected by melancholy) · tr melankolik (filled with or affected by melancholy) · es melancólico (filled with or affected by melancholy)

melancholic en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.

Meanings

  1. A person who is habitually melancholy.
    • Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock, Tennessee Williams, Mark Rothko, melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil? 2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
melancholicke alternative, obsolete lexicographic
melancholick alternative, obsolete lexicographic
melancholics Number=Plur lexicographic
melancholike alternative, obsolete lexicographic

Translations (14)

pl melancholiczka (a person who is habitually melancholy) · de Melancholiker (a person who is habitually melancholy) · pl melancholik (a person who is habitually melancholy) · ro melancolic (a person who is habitually melancholy) · cmn 憂鬱的人 /忧郁的人 (a person who is habitually melancholy) · ro melancolică (a person who is habitually melancholy) · ja 憂鬱な人 (a person who is habitually melancholy) · bg меланхолик (a person who is habitually melancholy) · de Melancholikerin (a person who is habitually melancholy) · eo melankoliulo (a person who is habitually melancholy) · gd duine brònach (a person who is habitually melancholy) · sv melankoliker (a person who is habitually melancholy) · uk меланхо́лік (a person who is habitually melancholy) · ru меланхо́лик (a person who is habitually melancholy)