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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Affected with or subject to melancholy.
  2. adj. Of or relating to melancholia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Affected with melancholy; gloomy; hypochondriac.
  2. Produced by melancholy; expressive or suggestive of melancholy; somber; gloomy; mournful: as, melancholic strains.
  3. Producing melancholy; unfortunate; causing sorrow.
  4. n. One who is affected with mental gloom; a hypochondriac; in pathology, one who suffers from melancholia; a melancholiac.
  5. n. A gloomy state of mind.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
  2. n. One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
  3. n. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone subject to melancholia
  2. adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

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