melancholy /melˈən-ko-li or -kə-, formerly me-langˈko-li/

1. Prolonged depression of spirits
2. Dejection
3. Melancholia
4. Indulgence in thoughts of pleasing sadness
5. Wistful pensiveness
6. Black bile, considered one of the four chief bodily humours (obsolete)
7. An excess of black bile, or the mental condition or temperament supposed to result from this (obsolete)
8. Surliness (obsolete)

1. Prone to, affected by, expressive of, or causing, melancholy
2. Depressed
3. Pensive
4. Deplorable

melanchōˈlia noun (pl melanchōˈliae /-ī/)

A mental state characterized by dejection and misery

melanchōˈliac noun

A sufferer from melancholia (also adjective)

melancholic /-kolˈik/ adjective

1. Affected with, or caused by, melancholy or melancholia
2. Dejected
3. Mournful

A melancholiac

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