melancholiac
[mel-uh n-koh-lee-ak]
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adjective
affected with melancholia.
noun
a person who is affected with melancholia.
Origin of melancholiac
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Examples from the Web for melancholiac
Historical Examples of melancholiac
He remembered one of those men in the islands who had become a melancholiac.
The Law of Hemlock MountainHugh Lundsford
A saint in ecstasy is as motionless and irresponsive and one-idea'd as a melancholiac.
A Book of ExpositionHomer Heath Nugent
But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.
The Call of the CanyonZane Grey
A man subjected long to that soul-cramping stress, with no outlet or abatement, would have become a melancholiac.
The TemperingCharles Neville Buck
His attitude toward them is that of the paranoiac, vindictive, rather than that of the melancholiac, humiliated.
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