Melancholic vs. Melancholy

Melancholic vs. Melancholy — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Melancholic and Melancholy

Melancholicadjective

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

Melancholyadjective

(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.

Melancholy people don't talk much.

Melancholicnoun

A person who is habitually melancholy.

Melancholynoun

(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

Melancholicnoun

someone subject to melancholia

Melancholynoun

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

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Melancholicadjective

characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;

growing more melancholy every hourher melancholic smilewe acquainted him with the melancholy truth

Melancholynoun

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

Melancholynoun

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Melancholynoun

a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Melancholyadjective

characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;

growing more melancholy every hourher melancholic smilewe acquainted him with the melancholy truth