Melancholic vs. Melancholy: What's the Difference?

Affected with or subject to melancholy.

Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.

Of or relating to melancholia.

Pensive reflection or contemplation.

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

Black bile.

(dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).

An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.

(classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.

Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.

A person who is habitually melancholy.

Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

Pensive; thoughtful.

One affected with a gloomy state of mind.

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

A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.

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

Someone subject to melancholia

(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.

Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

Ill nature.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

Favorable to meditation; somber.

A feeling of thoughtful sadness

A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

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

Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;