Associations to the word «Melancholic»

Wiktionary

MELANCHOLIC, adjective. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
MELANCHOLIC, noun. A person who is habitually melancholy.

Dictionary definition

MELANCHOLIC, noun. Someone subject to melancholia.
MELANCHOLIC, adjective. Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca