ambivert, brooder, depressing, extrovert, irked, melancholy, sad, schizothyme, syntone, triste, weary unto death
Definitionadj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Last update: August 27, 2016
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What would you gain by being melancholic now. [Please select]
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She was melancholic when she found out her favorite character in the show died. [Please select]
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The "Melancolia," numbered "1" as though intended to be the first of a series, with its brooding winged genius sitting dejectedly amidst a litter of scientific instruments and symbols, is hard to interpret in detail, but impossible not to recognize in general terms as an embodiment of the spirit of intellectual research (the student's "temperament" was supposed to be one with the melancholic), resting sadly from its labours in a mood of lassitude and defeat. [Please select]
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Evelyn said, in his melancholic way. [Please select]
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Upon my soul, Fareham, you should fight against that melancholic habit. [Please select]
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It will amuse me, and wean me from melancholic fancies. [Please select]
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_ The affection displayed by the Egyptians for bright colours would alone indicate that their temperament was not melancholic. [Please select]
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He might be neurasthenic, melancholic, insane at times, or even grow permanently so. [Please select]
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For he, too, was in love with love for the first time in his life; yet it was not a hungry scanning of future horizons, but a profound melancholic reflection over the wasted past. [Please select]
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At this my Aunt Gainor's large face reappeared, not as melancholic as before, and I added, "Friend Waln has six to care for, and Thomas Scattergood has the Hessian chaplain and a drunken major." [Please select]
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