melancholic

  • 11melancholic — adjective formal feeling or tending to be very sad, often because you are mentally ill: the cause of Emilia s melancholic condition …

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  • 12melancholic — melancholy ► NOUN ▪ deep and long lasting sadness. ► ADJECTIVE ▪ sad or depressed. DERIVATIVES melancholic adjective. ORIGIN Greek melankholia, from melas black + khol bile , an excess of which was formerly believed to cause depression …

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  • 13melancholic — I noun someone subject to melancholia • Syn: ↑melancholiac • Hypernyms: ↑depressive II adjective characterized by or causing or expressing sadness growing more melancholy every hour …

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  • 14Melancholic depression — Melancholic depression, or depression with melancholic features is a subtype of major depression characterized by major depressive disorder with the following specific features: anhedonia (the inability to find pleasure in positive things),… …

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  • 15Melancholic Ballad (For The Leftlovers) — Single by Fingertips Released 2004 Recorded 2004 Genre Pop rock Label …

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  • 16melancholic — melancholically, adv. /mel euhn kol ik/, adj. 1. disposed to or affected with melancholy; gloomy. 2. of, pertaining to, or affected with melancholia. [1350 1400; ME melancolik < L melancholicus < Gk melancholikós. See MELANCHOLY, IC] * * * …

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  • 17melancholic — adjective Filled with or affected by melancholy great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature …

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  • 18melancholic — Synonyms and related words: ambivert, atrabiliar, atrabilious, blase, blue, brooder, choleric, cycloid, cyclothyme, cyclothymic, depressing, depressive, dispirited, ectomorph, endomorph, extrovert, fed up, funky, gloomy Gus, good and tired,&#8230; …

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  • 19melancholic — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective In low spirits: blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy hearted, low, melancholy, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idiom: down at&#8230; …

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  • 20melancholic — mel|an|chol|ic [ˌmelənˈkɔlık US ˈka: ] adj literary feeling very sad …

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