Usually means: Sadness pervading one's thoughts, mood.
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  1. melancholic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. melancholic: Merriam-Webster
  3. melancholic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. melancholic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. melancholic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. melancholic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Melancholic, melancholic: Wordnik
  8. melancholic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. melancholic: Wiktionary
  10. melancholic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. melancholic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. melancholic: Dictionary.com
  13. Melancholic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Melancholic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. melancholic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. melancholic: Rhymezone
  17. melancholic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. melancholic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. melancholic: FreeDictionary.org
  20. melancholic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. melancholic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. melancholic: Legal dictionary

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  1. melancholic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. melancholic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. melancholic: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
adjective:  (dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
adjective:  (classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
noun:  A person who is habitually melancholy.

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