melancholiac
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of melancholiac
First recorded in 1860–65; melancholi(a) + -ac
Example Sentences
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I dare say I am—but I do object to being made out a hopeless melancholiac!
From The Travelling Companions a Story in Scenes by F. Anstey
She was as used to loneliness as a hotel melancholiac; the people they had known had drifted away to far suburbs.
From The Innocents A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis
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 Charles Reade
I daresay I am—but I do object to being made out a hopeless melancholiac!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 29, 1891 by Various
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 Wallace Smith
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