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 Anstey, F.
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
But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.
From The Call of the Canyon by Grey, Zane
In short, she gave them the impression that Alfred was a moping melancholiac.
From Hard Cash by Reade, Charles
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
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