Melancholic

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  • adjective. Affected with or subject to melancholy.
  • adjective. Of or relating to melancholia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Affected with melancholy; gloomy; hypochondriac.
  • Produced by melancholy; expressive or suggestive of melancholy; somber; gloomy; mournful: as, melancholic strains.
  • Producing melancholy; unfortunate; causing sorrow.
  • noun. One who is affected with mental gloom; a hypochondriac; in pathology, one who suffers from melancholia; a melancholiac.
  • noun. A gloomy state of mind.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
  • noun. One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
  • noun. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
  • noun. A person who is habitually melancholy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone subject to melancholia
  • adjective. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  • Word Usage
    "Whether we identify as melancholic, or a classic Meyers-Briggs Introvert-Sensing-Thinking-Judging, or excuse our disheveled bedroom as a sign of our creativity, we take comfort in classifying our personalities, even as we insist on our individuality."
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    sad  
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