melancholiac

American  

[mel-uhn-koh-lee-ak] / ˌmɛl ənˈkoʊ liˌæk /

adjective

1. affected with melancholia.

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noun

1. a person who is affected with melancholia.

Etymology

Origin of melancholiac

First recorded in 1860–65; melancholi(a) + -ac

Example Sentences

He remembered one of those men in the islands who had become a melancholiac.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

Even an inspector with a naked eye would no longer have distinguished him at first sight from a lunatic of the unhappiest class, the melancholiac.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles

This blubberer who had followed me home in the snow, yes this insufferable melancholiac who rained his tears into my Heaven—Mallare would have killed him.

From Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath by Smith, Wallace

In short, she gave them the impression that Alfred was a moping melancholiac.

From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles

I would here observe that the figure of the maniac is superior to that of the melancholiac, whose expression is rather that of dementia than melancholia.

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Tuke, Daniel Hack