melancholic

Meaning

Adj

1. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
2. (dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
3. Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.

Noun

A person who is habitually melancholy.

Synonyms

depressed

sad

☹️

melancholy

melancholiac

dejected

sorrowful

blue

wistful

gloomy

somber

heavyhearted

lugubrious

sullen

dismal

grievous

mournful

regretful

miserable

obscure

pensive

😔

sombre

unhappy

☹️

yearning

bleak

melancholy.

broody

crestfallen

dark

desolate

despair

despondent

dim

dispirited

disturbed

downcast

dreary

gaunt

glum

hipped

joyless

low-spirited

Translations

mélancolique

melancólico

melancholisch

melancólico

☹️

malinconico

μελαγχολικός

melancholiek

Melancholiker

melancòlic

melancólica

wehmütig

personne mélancolique

melancholicus

droefgeestig

weemoedig

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.