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Meanings of melancholic in English
Catalan
malenconiós Synonyms
Examples for "melancholiac"
Examples for "melancholiac"
1
But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.
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.
3
Certain melancholiacs furnish the extreme example of the over-inhibited type.
4
"These are strange words for a melancholiac," Surplus said wonderingly.
Usage of melancholic in English
1
My characters had to be like people I know: wonderful and melancholic.
2
They remind me of childhood, and school days, and make me melancholic.
3
From Omain's melancholic descriptions it sounded like a good place to live.
4
They were very different films but the melancholic, indulged posh-girl persona stuck.
5
I mind how I combated his melancholy, for he was most melancholic.
6
If my temper be melancholic, melancholy has a happiness of its own.
7
No-one else can do subtle, stately melancholic big-tent electronic sounds like Kraftwerk.
8
It's an often melancholic, occasionally silly record in song of strange times.
9
Every year, they remember those who are bruised and broken, melancholic or moody.
10
There was no change of expression in the dark melancholic face.
11
Warren Gatland used to do it but he's gone all melancholic and subdued.
12
Darger, whose inclination was naturally toward the melancholic, found himself thinking of annihilation.
13
You know that he is a man of melancholic humour: cool and moist.'
14
At first she looked unseeingly, with the dull, introspective gaze of the melancholic.
15
These gentle, melancholic Americana tracks lend a faraway look to their musical vision.
16
I was younger then and easily moved by simplistic slogans and melancholic tunes.
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Melancholic through the time
Melancholic across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common