American English pronunciation
How to pronounce melancholic
IPA transcription: [,mɛlən'kɑlɪk]
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Noun
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someone subject to melancholia
Adjective
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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.