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Webster 1913 Edition
Melancholic
Mel′an-cholˊic
,Adj.
[L.
melancholicus
, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F. mélancholique
.] Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Just as the
Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
melancholic
eyeSees fleets and armies in the sky.
Prior.
Mel′an-cholˊic
,Noun.
[Obs.]
1.
One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
J. Spenser.
2.
A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
Clarendon.
Webster 1828 Edition
Melancholic
MEL'ANCHOLIC
,Adj.
1.
Depressed in spirits; affected with gloom; dejected; hypochondriac. Grief indulged to excess, has a tendency to render a person melancholic.2.
Produced by melancholy; expressive of melancholy; mournful; as melancholic strains. Just as the melancholic eye,
See fleets and armies in the sky.
3.
Unhappy; unfortunate; causing sorrow; as accidents and melancholic perplexities.MEL'ANCHOLIC
,Noun.
1.
A gloomy state of mind.Definition 2024
melancholic
melancholic
English
Alternative forms
- melancholick (obsolete)
Adjective
melancholic (comparative more melancholic, superlative most melancholic)
- Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
- Prior
- Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
- Prior
Translations
filled with or affected by melancholy
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Noun
melancholic (plural melancholics)
- A person who is habitually melancholy.
- 2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times:
- Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock , Tennessee Williams , Mark Rothko , melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil?
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