melancholic

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}]
    

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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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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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "melancholic":
      ambivert, atrabiliar, atrabilious, blase, blue, brooder, choleric,
      cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, depressing, depressive,
      dispirited, ectomorph, endomorph, extrovert, fed-up, funky,
      gloomy Gus, good and tired, introvert, irked, jaded, joyless,
      life-weary, melancholiac, melancholy, mesomorph, mope, pensive,
      phlegmatic, sad, saddening, sanguine, satiated, schizoid,
      schizothyme, sick, sick of, sourpuss, splenetic, syntone, tired,
      tired of, tired of living, tired to death, triste, tristful,
      wearied, weariful, weary, weary unto death, wistful, world-weary