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synonyms for melancholic

  • gloomy
  • lugubrious
  • melancholy
  • wistful
  • at
  • bad
  • bleeding
  • blue
  • down
  • downcast
  • hurting
  • low
  • low-down
  • moody
  • weeping
  • bummed out
  • cast down
  • crestfallen
  • crummy
  • dejected
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • disconsolate
  • dispirited
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downhearted
  • dragged
  • dull
  • dysphoric
  • fed up
  • glum
  • grim
  • heavy-hearted
  • in a blue funk
  • in pain
  • in the dumps
  • in the pits
  • in the toilet
  • let down
  • low-spirited
  • morose
  • on a downer
  • pessimistic
  • ripped
  • sad
  • sob story
  • spiritless
  • taken down
  • torn-up
  • tristful
  • unhappy
  • woebegone

antonyms for melancholic

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  • cheerful
  • happy
  • joyful
  • heartened
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How to use melancholic in a sentence

This was profoundly touching and meaningful to me, obviously, but I’m mentioning it to clarify that what he’d praised was a portrait of himself as an intensely melancholic man with very deep, very old private regrets.
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I’d also be remiss not to mention Nicholas Britell’s gorgeous, strings-accompanied score, merged with sounds of wildlife and the whistle of a train, that smoothly oscillates between soothing, melancholic, and menacing.
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By 2018, DeepMind’s AI was already outperforming everyone at CASP, provoking some melancholic feelings among the human researchers.
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The immediate cause of the development of such a melancholic state is always some unfortunate event in the course of life.
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Melancholic conditions are frequently found in successive generations of the same family.
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In many cases the refusal of food is associated with the patient's melancholic delusions.
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His face, now almost serene with a melancholic good nature, contrasted with the somber severity of his companion.
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His keen, thoughtful dark eye marked the nervous and melancholic temperament.
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