melancholic

Examples

• All

• The melancholic is about to enter, or is at the moment of entering, the active process necessary to put the tortuous and repetitive task of recollection to rest.

  Academic text (2014)

• Conscious that there should be a pathway out, the melancholic lacks the map to get there.

  Academic text (2014)

• The melancholic is no longer a romantic figure.

  Academic text (2007)

• Or the person who is melancholic or depressed or sad all the time.

• The melancholic is ready to begin the work of mourning.

  Academic text (2014)

• The complete courtier had turned, before her eyes, into a haggard melancholic, his head filled with incomprehensible stratagems, all of which seemed to deepen their troubles.

  Academic text (1999)

• The melancholic often finds solace in music that reflects their sadness.

• The melancholic tends to see the world through a lens of sorrow and reflection.

Synonyms

M

moper

vsmelancholic

1 7.5

A person who is often gloomy and stays quiet

feels deeper, lasting sadness rather than brief gloom or sulking

M

melancholiac

vsmelancholic

• Archaic

9.9

A person who often feels deep sadness

is a recurring tendency to feel deep sadness rather than a fixed condition

S

sorrower

vsmelancholic

8.4

A person who feels deep sadness after losing someone

tends to feel deep sadness regularly rather than only after specific losses

How Gloomy

depressed

441 3.5

melancholic

7.9

moper

1 7.5

sulker

7.7

Surface Forms

Etymology