melancholiac
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of melancholiac
First recorded in 1860–65; melancholi(a) + -ac
Example Sentences
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In short, she gave them the impression that Alfred was a moping melancholiac.
From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles
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
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
The posture and expression remind us at once of the katatonia which is symptomatic of dementia præcox and other stuporose and melancholiac conditions in adult life.
From The Nervous Child by Cameron, Hector Charles
He remembered one of those men in the islands who had become a melancholiac.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
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