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MELANCHOLIC
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Dictionary entry overview: What does melancholic mean?
• MELANCHOLIC (noun)
The noun MELANCHOLIC has 1 sense:
1. someone subject to melancholia
Familiarity information: MELANCHOLIC used as a noun is very rare.
• MELANCHOLIC (adjective)
The adjective MELANCHOLIC has 1 sense:
1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Familiarity information: MELANCHOLIC used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone subject to melancholia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
melancholiac; melancholic
Hypernyms ("melancholic" is a kind of...):
depressive (someone suffering psychological depression)
Derivation:
melancholic (characterized by or causing or expressing sadness)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Synonyms:
melancholic; melancholy
Context example:
we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
Similar:
sad (experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness)
Derivation:
melancholia (extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears)
melancholic (someone subject to melancholia)
Context examples
A disorder characterized by melancholic feelings of grief or unhappiness.
(Depression, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
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