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What is the adjective for melancholiac?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb melancholize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

melancholic

Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Synonyms:

sad, gloomy, miserable, dejected, unhappy, melancholy, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, downcast, glum, forlorn, sorrowful, doleful, down, downhearted, mournful, blue, wretched, crestfallen, woebegone, low, heartbroken, woeful, joyless, desolate, inconsolable, morose, dispirited, saddened, sorry, brokenhearted, heartsick, droopy, bad, heavyhearted, lugubrious, grim, pessimistic, dark, moody, dull, elegiac, spiritless, dragged, heartsore, hurting, wistful, dysphoric, crummy … more

Examples:

“Is it normal to feel melancholic from time to time about lost loves and the paths unchosen?”

melancholy

Affected with great sadness or depression.
Synonyms:

melancholic, sad, depressed, down, gloomy, miserable, mournful, despondent, glum, low, downcast, sorrowful, unhappy, woeful, disconsolate, downhearted, lugubrious, pensive, dismal, dispirited, doleful, joyless, dejected, woebegone, wretched, desolate, blue, depressing, forlorn, funereal, moody, somber, discouraged, morose, sombre, wistful, crestfallen, downbeat, inconsolable, mirthless, pessimistic, saddened, sorry, defeatist, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavyhearted, lachrymose, morbid … more

Examples:

“Their melancholy expressions are at odds with the theatrical gaiety of their attire.”

“He was plagued with melancholy thoughts of failure.”

“It was during this crisis that he engaged in a melancholy ponderance upon life's end.”

melancholick

Obsolete form of melancholic.

melancholious

(obsolete) melancholy

melancholized

simple past tense and past participle of melancholize

melancholizing

present participle of melancholize

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