melancholic
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melancholic
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From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.
adjective more melancholic · most melancholic · melancholick · melancholicke · melancholike
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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.
Similar: miserable, despondent, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen
- Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
- Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
noun melancholics · melancholick · melancholicke · melancholike
- 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?
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adj filled with or affected by melancholy
| Español | melancólico |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 憂鬱な yūutsu na, 鬱病の utsubyō no |
| 中文 | 憂鬱 /忧郁 yōuyù, 多愁善感 duōchóushàngǎn |
| Português | melancólico |
| Français | mélancolique |
| Deutsch | melancholisch, schwermütig |
| Italiano | malinconico, melancolico |
| Ελληνικά | μελαγχολικός melancholikós |
| Română | melancolic |
| Русский | меланхоли́ческий melanxolíčeskij, меланхоли́чный melanxolíčnyj |
| العربية | سَوْدَاوِيّ sawdāwiyy |
| עברית | מלנכולי melanḥoli, דכדוך dikhdókh |
noun a person who is habitually melancholy
| 日本語 | 憂鬱な人 yūutsu na hito |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 憂鬱的人 /忧郁的人 yōuyù de rén |
| Deutsch | Melancholiker, Melancholikerin |
| Română | melancolic, melancolică |
| Русский | меланхо́лик melanxólik |
Talk about this word "melancholic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/melancholic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. melancholic. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/melancholic "melancholic." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/melancholic.Cite this
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title = {melancholic},
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