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In some senses, melancholic is marked as dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
happy, lonely, sharp, witty
VERB + MELANCHOLIC
feeling, playing, time, tone
MELANCHOLIC + NOUN
fleets, writings
PREP.
on
ADV.
sometimes
adj
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
noun
A person who is habitually melancholy.
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?
noun — someone subject to melancholia
adjective — characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
WiktionaryBut he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.
WiktionaryKafka, 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 limb
WiktionarySometimes he's happy, sometimes melancholic.
Tatoeba · #1249190I'm melancholic.
Tatoeba · #1249191Tamara seemed like a soul in despair since she was always lonely, downcast, and melancholic.
Tatoeba · #1249192i Register
In some senses, melancholic is marked as dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.