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Meanings of melancholiac in English

Catalan
malenconiós

Someone subject to melancholia.

        malenconiós
        Synonyms
        Examples for "melancholic"
        Examples for "melancholic"
        1
        My characters had to be like people I know: wonderful and melancholic.
        Ebony
        2
        They remind me of childhood, and school days, and make me melancholic.
        The Irish Times
        3
        From Omain's melancholic descriptions it sounded like a good place to live.
        The Neutronium Alchemist
        4
        They were very different films but the melancholic, indulged posh-girl persona stuck.
        The Guardian
        5
        I mind how I combated his melancholy, for he was most melancholic.
        The Path of the King
        Usage of melancholiac in English
        1
        But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.
        The Call of the Canyon
        2
        Even an inspector with a naked eye would no longer have distinguished him at first sight from a lunatic of the unhappiest class, the melancholiac.
        Hard Cash
        3
        Certain melancholiacs furnish the extreme example of the over-inhibited type.
        Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life...
        4
        "These are strange words for a melancholiac," Surplus said wonderingly.
        The dog said bow-wow
        Translations for melancholiac
        Melancholiac through the time