Definition for

melancholic


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.

adjective – Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

noun – One affected with a gloomy state of mind.

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