melancholiac

[ mel-uhn-koh-lee-ak ]

adjective

1. affected with melancholia.

noun

1. a person who is affected with melancholia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of melancholiac¹

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

Example Sentences

I dare say I am—but I do object to being made out a hopeless melancholiac!

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She was as used to loneliness as a hotel melancholiac; the people they had known had drifted away to far suburbs.

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A man subjected long to that soul-cramping stress, with no outlet or abatement, would have become a melancholiac.

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His attitude toward them is that of the paranoiac, vindictive, rather than that of the melancholiac, humiliated.

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

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