melancholic

adjdepressed

Antonyms for melancholic

Word Origin & History

late 14c., from melancholy + -ic, or else from Late Latin melancholicus, from Greek melankholikos "choleric," from melankholia "sadness" (see melancholy). As a noun, from 1580s. Earlier adjective formation was melancholian (mid-14c.), and melancholiac (mid-19c.) also was tried.

Example Sentences for melancholic

The captain was a clever, melancholic man, who had no unusual grip on his crew.

This is the melancholic temperament, which does not shrink from the most profound inquiry.

My dear Madam, I am really getting too serious, philosophic, and melancholic.

She watched Paul growing irritable, priggish, and melancholic.

But he fretted so, got so furious suddenly, and again was melancholic.

If my temper be melancholic, melancholy has a happiness of its own.

He was one of the most complete specimens of the melancholic temperament.

The rest of it is arid, rugged, and of a melancholic aspect.

This turned in his later years into a melancholic temperament.

Thus no one is exclusively sanguine, bilious, lymphatic, or melancholic.

melancholic

Synonyms for melancholic

Antonyms for melancholic

despairing

dysphoric

joyless

sad

sadder

melancholic

Synonyms for melancholic

Antonyms for melancholic

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depressing

despairing

dysphoric

joyless

sad

sadder