Inclined to melancholy; (Medicine) †of a melancholic constitution (obsolete); affected with melancholy, gloomy. Also, of a sound, etc.: expressive…

Of a person, his or her temperament, actions, etc. Originally: †dominated or characterized by an excess of black bile (cf. melancholy, n.1 2)…

Of a person's mood or character: gloomy, sad; sullen.

Originally: affected with, or having a temperament determined by, adust humours (see sense 1a). In later use: having a melancholy character or…

Of a person: gloomy, mournful, or dejected; inclined to sadness or gloominess; gloomily or mournfully introspective. Now also (of a person's…

In extended use, esp. of an animal. Frequently in proverbial phrases, as as melancholy as a cat, etc. Now chiefly in historical context.

= melancholy, adj. Cf. allicholly, n.

figurative. Murky, dark; obscure; dull. Also: melancholy, mournful.

Affected by black bile or ‘choler adust’; melancholy, hypochondriac; splenetic, acrimonious.

= atrabilarious, adj.

= atrabilarious, adj.; ‘replete with black choler’ (Johnson).

Suffering from the hyp (hyp, n.); melancholy, low spirited, depressed; irritable. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. hip, v.3 hippish, adj. Now histo…

Affected with, or suffering from, disease or disorder of the spleen; in later use, affected with melancholia or hypochondria. Obsolete.

= atrabiliar, adj.

Inclined to melancholy; somewhat melancholy.

= atrabilious, adj.

= atrabilious, adj.

Atrabilious, melancholy, hypochondriacal; splenetic, acrimonious.