Melancholic vs. Melancholy
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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 truthMelancholynoun
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
