MELANCHOLIC: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for MELANCHOLIC?

Need another word that means the same as “melancholic”? Find 2 synonyms and 30 related words for “melancholic” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Melancholic” are: melancholy, melancholiac

Melancholic as a Noun

Definitions of "Melancholic" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “melancholic” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Someone subject to melancholia.
• A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy.
• A feeling of thoughtful sadness.
• A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed.

Synonyms of "Melancholic" as a noun (1 Word)

melancholiac

A person suffering from melancholia or depression. Ovid s portrayal of Sappho as a desolate melancholiac.

Melancholic as an Adjective

Definitions of "Melancholic" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “melancholic” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Feeling or expressing pensive sadness.
• Suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression.
• Grave or even gloomy in character.
• Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.

Synonyms of "Melancholic" as an adjective (1 Word)

melancholy

Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. The melancholy tone of her writing.

Usage Examples of "Melancholic" as an adjective

• Her melancholic smile.
• A haunting, melancholic melody.
• Patients with melancholic depression.
• His work often has a wistful or melancholic mood.

Associations of "Melancholic" (30 Words)

blue	Of a ski run of the second lowest level of difficulty as indicated by blue markers positioned along it. Blue haze of tobacco smoke.
cheerless	Gloomy; depressing. Something cheerless about the room.
contemplative	A person devoted to the contemplative life. She regarded me with a contemplative eye.
dejected	Sad and depressed; dispirited. He stood in the street looking dejected.
depressed	Filled with melancholy and despondency. The market is depressed.
depression	A state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention. Depression of the plunger delivers two units of insulin.
despair	A state in which all hope is lost or absent. They moaned in despair and dismay.
despondency	Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless. An air of despondency.
despondent	Without or almost without hope. Despondent about his failure.
disappointment	A person or thing that causes disappointment. The job proved a disappointment.
dismal	(of a person or their mood) gloomy. He shuddered as he watched his team s dismal performance.
dreary	Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. The dreary round of working eating and trying to sleep.
elegiac	Verses in an elegiac metre. She watched repeat serials fixed on their moody and elegiac characterization.
gloom	A dark or shady place. The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
grief	Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death. Her death was a great grief to John.
grim	(especially of a place) unattractive or forbidding. The outlook s pretty grim.
homesickness	A longing to return home. I lived four years in London without a single pang of homesickness.
hopeless	Of a person unable to do something skillfully. I m hopeless at names.
lamentation	A cry of sorrow and grief. Scenes of lamentation.
loneliness	A disposition toward being alone. The loneliness of a sailor s life.
mourning	The expression of sorrow for someone’s death. She s still in mourning after the death of her husband.
nostalgia	Something done or presented in order to evoke feelings of nostalgia. An evening of TV nostalgia.
pensive	Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood.
pessimism	A tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen. The dispute cast an air of deep pessimism over the future of the peace talks.
sadness	The condition or quality of being sad. She tired of his perpetual sadness.
somber	Grave or even gloomy in character. Children in somber brown clothes.
sorrow	An event or circumstance that causes sorrow. He tried to express his sorrow at her loss.
sorry	Feeling sad or distressed through sympathy with someone else’s misfortune. We feel so ashamed that we keep quiet about the whole sorry business.
unhappy	Marked by or producing unhappiness. Many were unhappy about the scale of the cuts.
wistful	Showing pensive sadness. The sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beauty.