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Meanings of melancholic in English

Catalan
malenconiós

Someone subject to melancholia.

        malenconiós

        Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.

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              Usage of melancholic in English
              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
              6
              If my temper be melancholic, melancholy has a happiness of its own.
              Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 04
              7
              No-one else can do subtle, stately melancholic big-tent electronic sounds like Kraftwerk.
              The Irish Times
              8
              It's an often melancholic, occasionally silly record in song of strange times.
              The Guardian
              9
              Every year, they remember those who are bruised and broken, melancholic or moody.
              Independent.ie
              10
              There was no change of expression in the dark melancholic face.
              The Mysterious Affair at Styles
              11
              Warren Gatland used to do it but he's gone all melancholic and subdued.
              The Guardian
              12
              Darger, whose inclination was naturally toward the melancholic, found himself thinking of annihilation.
              The dog said bow-wow
              13
              You know that he is a man of melancholic humour: cool and moist.'
              The Lady of the Rivers
              14
              At first she looked unseeingly, with the dull, introspective gaze of the melancholic.
              Many Kingdoms
              15
              These gentle, melancholic Americana tracks lend a faraway look to their musical vision.
              The Irish Times
              16
              I was younger then and easily moved by simplistic slogans and melancholic tunes.
              The Irish Times
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              Melancholic through the time
              Melancholic across language varieties
              Ireland
              Common
              United Kingdom
              Less common