Melancholic

Quick meaning: Melancholic is an adjective meaning Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

Meaning

Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

More Meanings

1. (classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
2. A person who is habitually melancholy.
3. (dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).

Example Sentences

Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

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.

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?

Word Forms

• melancholick
• melancholicke
• melancholike
• melancholics

Synonyms for melancholic

Depending on context, synonyms include miserable, despondent, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include melancholiac, sad, melancholy, melancholick, depressive, pensive.

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