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
But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.
From The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey
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
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
He remembered one of those men in the islands who had become a melancholiac.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
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