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The synonyms of “Melancholic” are: melancholy, melancholiac
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “melancholic” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| melancholiac | A person suffering from melancholia or depression. Ovid s portrayal of Sappho as a desolate melancholiac. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “melancholic” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| melancholy | Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. The melancholy tone of her writing. |
| 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. |
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