Melancholic vs. Melancholy: What's the Difference?

Melancholic and Melancholy Definitions
Melancholic
Affected with or subject to melancholy.
Melancholy
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
Melancholic
Of or relating to melancholia.
Melancholy
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
Melancholic
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
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Melancholy
Black bile.
Melancholic
(dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
Melancholy
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.
Melancholic
(classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
Melancholy
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
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Melancholic
A person who is habitually melancholy.
Melancholy
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom
A letter with some melancholy news.
Melancholic
Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Just as the melancholic eyeSees fleets and armies in the sky.
Melancholy
Pensive; thoughtful.
Melancholic
One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
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Melancholy
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
Melancholic
A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
Melancholy
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Melancholic
Someone subject to melancholia
Melancholy
(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Melancholy people don't talk much.
Melancholic
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
Growing more melancholy every hour
Her melancholic smile
We acquainted him with the melancholy truth
Melancholy
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Melancholy
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
Melancholy
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Melancholy
Ill nature.
Melancholy
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Melancholy
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
Melancholy
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Melancholy
Favorable to meditation; somber.
A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
Melancholy
A feeling of thoughtful sadness
Melancholy
A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Melancholy
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Melancholy
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
Growing more melancholy every hour
Her melancholic smile
We acquainted him with the melancholy truth