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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone subject to melancholia;
[syn: melancholic, melancholiac]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
- Example: "growing more melancholy every hour"
- Example: "her melancholic smile"
- Example: "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
[syn: melancholy, melancholic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Melancholic \Mel"an*chol`ic\, a. [L. melancholicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. m['e]lancholique.] Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. [1913 Webster] Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Melancholic \Mel"an*chol`ic\, n. [Obs.] 1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. --J. Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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