American English pronunciation

How to pronounce melancholic

IPA transcription: [,mɛlən'kɑlɪk]

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Noun

  • someone subject to melancholia

Adjective

  • characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

    “growing more melancholy every hour”

    “her melancholic smile”

    “we acquainted him with the melancholy truth”

Usage examples

  • I wonder if plastic plants make a room more beautiful or more melancholic.
  • His playing style has been described as ...like a slightly melancholic Oscar Peterson.
  • She watched Paul growing irritable, priggish, and melancholic.
  • Segal's figures have minimal color and detail, which give them a ghostly, melancholic appearance.
  • Hal begins to avoid Rosemary, who becomes melancholic without him around.
  • These were melancholic songs akin to someone like Roy Orbison.
  • Thus arise colorful worlds that unite the uninhibited and the melancholic.
  • Their music can be described as melancholic.
  • However, acquaintances and staff members commented that he seemed melancholic and deflated.
  • Hippocrates theorized that there are four personality types: choleric, melancholic, sanguine, and phlegmatic.