melancholic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone subject to melancholia
    melancholiac.
  2. adjective satellite characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
    melancholy.
    • growing more melancholy every hour
    • her melancholic smile
    • we acquainted him with the melancholy truth

WordNet

Mel"an*chol`ic adjective
Etymology
L. melancholicus, Gr. : cf. F. mélancholique.
Definitions
  1. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
    Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.
Mel"an*chol`ic noun
Definitions
Obs.
  1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser.
  2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. Clarendon.

Webster 1913