Melancholic

Synonyms for "melancholic" (114 found)

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Closest matches (23)

ambivert atrabiliar atrabilious blase blue brooder choleric cycloid cyclothyme cyclothymic depressing depressive

Noun(2 words)

black brooding

Adjective(9 words)

bleak brokenhearted broody byronic caliginousclinical melancholicdepresseddepressed patientdepressed person

Strong matches (34)

Noun(3 words)

depressives emo gorkiy

Adjective(15 words)

despondent disheartened distrait doleful dolorous drearier droopiest dusky dysphoric elegiacgalician lagrimagloomygloomy prosehaunted lovesick

dispirited ectomorph endomorph extrovertfed upfed-up funkygloomy gusgood and tiredintrovert irked jaded joyless life-weary melancholiac

Verb(1 words)

glooming

Related words (57)

Noun(8 words)

melancholiac melancholics pining raven sighing sorrowingtragic moodwailing

Adjective(18 words)

melancholic typemelancholyminor pointmood disorder patientmoodier morose mournful pensive plangent rainy rueful sadsad personsomber sombre sorrowful sulkier sunless

melancholy mesomorph mope morbid pensive phlegmatic sad saddening sanguine satiated schizoid schizothyme sicksick ofsombre sourpuss splenetic syntone tiredtired of

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tired of livingtired to deathtriste tristful wearied weariful wearyweary unto deathwistfulworld wearyworld-weary

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

10 entries

aesthetic qualityclinical casedepressiveemotional statemood patient personpersonality traittemperament tone

More specific

9 entries

bleak harmonydoleful moodmelancholic novelistmelancholic poetmelancholic temperamentmood disorder patientpsychiatric patientsomber moodsomber tone

Collocations

9 entries

clinical melancholicmelancholic atmospheremelancholic figuremelancholic moodmelancholic patientmelancholic personalitymelancholic poetrymelancholic temperamentmelancholic tone

Inflections

3 entries

melancholicsmore melancholicmost melancholic

Derivations

3 entries

melancholically melancholiness melancholy

similar

1 entries

sad

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Sometimes he's happy, sometimes melancholic.

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I'm melancholic.

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Tamara seemed like a soul in despair since she was always lonely, downcast, and melancholic.

Source: tatoeba (1249192)

Today I'm feeling melancholic.

Source: tatoeba (1508047)

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