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Adjective [English]

Forms: more melancholic [comparative], most melancholic [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|melancholicus}} Latin melancholicus, {{der|en|grc|μελαγχολικός||atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament}} Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), {{surf|en|melancholy|-ic}} By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic Head templates: {{en-adj}} melancholic (comparative more melancholic, superlative most melancholic)
  1. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (filled with or affected by melancholy): δύσθυμος (dústhumos) (Ancient Greek), σκυθρωπός (skuthrōpós) (Ancient Greek), меланхоличен (melanholičen) (Bulgarian), melancòlic (Catalan), malenconiós (Catalan), 憂鬱 (Chinese Mandarin), 忧郁 (yōuyù) (Chinese Mandarin), melancholický (Czech), melankolsk (Danish), melancholisch (Dutch), droevig (Dutch), melankolia (Esperanto), apea (Finnish), melankolinen (Finnish), alakuloinen (Finnish), haikea (Finnish), surumielinen (Finnish), mélancolique (French), melancólico (Galician), ნაღვლიანი (naɣvliani) (Georgian), სევდიანი (sevdiani) (Georgian), melancholisch (German), schwermütig (German), μελαγχολικός (melancholikós) (Greek), מלנכולי (melanḥoli) (Hebrew), דכדוך (dikhdókh) (Hebrew), búskomor (Hungarian), melankolis (Indonesian), alakuloin (Ingrian), melancholia (Interlingua), dúchroíoch (Irish), malinconico (Italian), melancolico (Italian), 憂鬱な (yūutsu na) (alt: ゆううつな) (Japanese), 鬱病の (utsubyō no) (alt: うつびょうの) (Japanese), melancholicus (Latin), maestus (Latin), melancholesch (Luxembourgish), kainatu (Maori), matapōuri (Maori), ruku popoi (Maori), rāwakiwaki (Maori), sørgmodig (Norwegian Bokmål), melankolsk (Norwegian Bokmål), sørgmodig (Norwegian Nynorsk), melankolsk (Norwegian Nynorsk), drēoriġ (Old English), melancholiczny (Polish), melancholijny (Polish), melancólico (Portuguese), melancolic (Romanian), меланхоли́ческий (melanxolíčeskij) (Russian), меланхоли́чный (melanxolíčnyj) (Russian), खिन्न (khinna) (Sanskrit), dowie (Scots), mulad [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), èislean [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), dòlasachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), tùirse [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), dubhachas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), cianalas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), truime [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), снужденост [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), утученост [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), snuždenost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), utučenost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), melankòličan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), melancólico (Spanish), melankolisk (Swedish), lukulok (Tagalog), меланхолик (melanxolik) (Tatar), melankolik (Turkish), hüzünlü (Turkish), kederli (Turkish), меланхо́лічний (melanxóličnyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), glumaladäl (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-melancholic-en-adj-O-OOVdhL Disambiguation of Emotions: 24 19 28 29 Categories (other): Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Ancient Greek translations Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 43 14 38 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Ancient Greek translations: 30 27 31 11 Disambiguation of 'filled with or affected by melancholy': 68 31 1
  2. (dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy). Tags: dated Categories (topical): Emotions
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  3. (classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits. Categories (topical): Emotions, Personality
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: melancholick, melancholicke, melancholike [obsolete]

Noun [English]

Forms: melancholics [plural]
Etymology: From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|melancholicus}} Latin melancholicus, {{der|en|grc|μελαγχολικός||atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament}} Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), {{surf|en|melancholy|-ic}} By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic Head templates: {{en-noun}} melancholic (plural melancholics)
  1. A person who is habitually melancholy. Categories (topical): Emotions Translations (a person who is habitually melancholy): меланхолик (melanholik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), melankoliulo (Esperanto), melancholik [masculine] (Polish), melancholiczka [feminine] (Polish), меланхо́лик (melanxólik) [masculine] (Russian), melankoliker [common-gender] (Swedish), меланхо́лік (melanxólik) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: melancholick, melancholicke, melancholike [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.",
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      "word": "меланхоличен"
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      "word": "malenconiós"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "憂鬱"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "忧郁"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "apea"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melankolinen"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "alakuloinen"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "haikea"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "surumielinen"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "mélancolique"
    },
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      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancólico"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "naɣvliani",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "ნაღვლიანი"
    },
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      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "sevdiani",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "სევდიანი"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancholisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "schwermütig"
    },
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "melancholikós",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "μελαγχολικός"
    },
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      "code": "grc",
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      "roman": "dústhumos",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "δύσθυμος"
    },
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      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
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      "word": "σκυθρωπός"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "melanḥoli",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "מלנכולי"
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      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dikhdókh",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "דכדוך"
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "búskomor"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melankolis"
    },
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      "code": "izh",
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "alakuloin"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancholia"
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      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "dúchroíoch"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "malinconico"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancolico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ゆううつな",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "憂鬱な"
    },
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      "alt": "うつびょうの",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "utsubyō no",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "鬱病の"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancholicus"
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      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "maestus"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancholesch"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "kainatu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "matapōuri"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "ruku popoi"
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      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "rāwakiwaki"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "sørgmodig"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melankolsk"
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "sørgmodig"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "drēoriġ"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancholiczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancholijny"
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    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancólico"
    },
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancolic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "melanxolíčeskij",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "меланхоли́ческий"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "melanxolíčnyj",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "меланхоли́чный"
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "khinna",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "खिन्न"
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      "code": "sco",
      "lang": "Scots",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "dowie"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "word": "mulad"
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      "code": "gd",
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "word": "cianalas"
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    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "word": "truime"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "word": "снужденост"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
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      "tags": [
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melancólico"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "melankolisk"
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      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "lukulok"
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      "roman": "melanxolik",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
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      "word": "hüzünlü"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "kederli"
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      "roman": "melanxóličnyj",
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      "word": "меланхо́лічний"
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      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "filled with or affected by melancholy",
      "word": "glumaladäl"
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          "ref": "2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "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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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "melanholik",
      "sense": "a person who is habitually melancholy",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "меланхолик"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "a person who is habitually melancholy",
      "word": "melankoliulo"
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      "sense": "a person who is habitually melancholy",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "melancholik"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "a person who is habitually melancholy",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "melancholiczka"
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      "sense": "a person who is habitually melancholy",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "меланхо́лик"
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      "sense": "a person who is habitually melancholy",
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