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A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
David Rakoff

Meaning of "melancholic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MELANCHOLIC

melancholic  [ˌmɛlənˈkɒlɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELANCHOLIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Melancholic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MELANCHOLIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Melancholia (disambiguation)

Melancholia was one of the four temperaments in proto-psychology and pre-modern medicine, representing a state of low mood. Melancholia may also refer to ▪ Depression, a state of low mood also known as "melancholia" ▪ Major depressive disorder, a mood disorder historically called "melancholia" ▪ Melancholia, a British-German film by Andi Engel, starring Jeroen Krabbé ▪ Melancholia, a Philippine film by Lav Diaz ▪ Melancholia, an English-language film by Lars von Trier ▪ "Melancholia", a musical composition by Duke Ellington that first appeared on the album The Duke Plays Ellington ▪ 5708 Melancholia, an asteroid ▪ Melencolia I, an engraving by Albrecht Dürer ▪ Involutional melancholia, a traditional name for a psychiatric disorder affecting mainly elderly or late middle-aged people that is no longer in use...

Definition of melancholic in the English dictionary

The definition of melancholic in the dictionary is relating to or suffering from melancholy or melancholia. Other definition of melancholic is a person who suffers from melancholia.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MELANCHOLIC


alcoholic
ˌælkəˈhɒlɪk
anabolic
ˌænəˈbɒlɪk
apostolic
ˌæpəˈstɒlɪk
bucolic
bjuːˈkɒlɪk
colic
ˈkɒlɪk
diastolic
ˌdaɪəˈstɒlɪk
frolic
ˈfrɒlɪk
gastrocolic
ˌɡæstrəʊˈkɒlɪk
glycolic
ɡlaɪˈkɒlɪk
glycollic
ɡlaɪˈkɒlɪk
hydraulic
haɪˈdrɒlɪk
hyperbolic
ˌhaɪpəˈbɒlɪk
metabolic
ˌmetəˈbɒlɪk
parabolic
ˌpærəˈbɒlɪk
phenolic
fɪˈnɒlɪk
protocolic
ˌprəʊtəʊˈkɒlɪk
shopaholic
ˌʃɒpəˈhɒlɪk
symbolic
sɪmˈbɒlɪk
systolic
sɪˈstɒlɪk
workaholic
ˌwɜːkəˈhɒlɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELANCHOLIC

melanaemia
melancholia
melancholiac
melancholically
melancholies
melancholily
melancholiness
melancholious
melancholy
Melanchthon
Melanesia
Melanesian
melange
melanian
melanic
melanin
melanisation
melanism
melanist
melanistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELANCHOLIC

Anglo-Catholic
anti-Catholic
catabolic
catholic
chocaholic
chocoholic
diabolic
embolic
Greek Catholic
Mongolic
non-Catholic
nonalcoholic
Old Catholic
polyphenolic
Roman Catholic
sexaholic
shambolic
thromboembolic
tweet-a-holic
vitriolic

Synonyms and antonyms of melancholic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «melancholic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MELANCHOLIC

Find out the translation of melancholic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of melancholic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «melancholic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

忧郁
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

melancólica
570 millions of speakers

English

melancholic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

उदास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

كئيب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

меланхоличный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

melancólica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দু: খজনক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mélancolique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melankolik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

melancholisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

メランコリック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우울증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Melancholic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mắc chứng u uất
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மனச்சோர்வு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विषण्णतावादक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

melankolik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

malinconico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

melancholijny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

меланхолійний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

melancolic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μελαγχολικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

melancholiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

melankolisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

melankolsk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of melancholic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANCHOLIC»

The term «melancholic» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.519 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANCHOLIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about melancholic

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9 QUOTES WITH «MELANCHOLIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word melancholic.
1
Karl Abraham
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
2
Monica Bellucci
Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.
3
Jose Carreras
The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens.
4
Anton Corbijn
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.
5
Tom Hodgkinson
Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.
6
Lykke Li
I'm a very melancholic kind of person. I don't know why; I think certain people are born a certain way.
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David Rakoff
A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.
8
David Rakoff
I'm not sure. But that bless-his/her-heart kind of melancholic humor is among my favorite things in the world. I guess it exposes a kind of humanity - or that's the hope, at least - a kind of grudging respect for human frailty. Unless it's actually kicking human frailty while it's down - I'm not sure.
9
Francois Truffaut
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELANCHOLIC»

Discover the use of melancholic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to melancholic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Melancholic Freedom : Agency and the Spirit of Politics: ...
Through a critical engagement with the work of theorists such as Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and Stanley Cavell, Kim argues that late modern and postmodern agency is found most effectively at work in what he calls "projects of ...
David Kyuman Kim Director of the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity and Associate Professor of Religious Studies Connecticut College, 2007
2
Not Half No End: Militantly Melancholic Essays in Memory of ...
This book, newly available in paperback, gathers essays written by Geoffrey Bennington since the death of his friend Jacques Derrida in 2004.
Geoffrey Bennington, 2011
3
Illness and Insight: Melancholic Encounters With(in) History ...
Collectively, these texts by three of the most significant modern German writers highlight the subject's struggle with the problem of perception and expression as an antagonism deeply embedded within the demands of their elusive and ...
Isaac Johan Tubb, 2008
4
O Let Us Howle Some Heavy Note: Music for Witches, the ...
A multidisciplinary study of the uses of music in 17th-century English theatre
Amanda Eubanks Winkler, 2006
5
High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic ...
" In High Drama, Michael Duncan's exploration of the beliefs, styles, and legacy of the "melancholic sublime," and the biographies and reproductions of the work of thirty-five artists, complete a thorough look at a school of great interest, ...
Michael Duncan, 2004
6
The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln
Follows the early life of Abraham Lincoln during which he suffered from a crippling depression that arose from unsuccessful attempts at building a career as a lawyer and politician and that threatened his family and his sanity.
‎2012
7
The Melancholic Mermaid
Maude, a mermaid who is teased by other merchildren, and Tony, a human boy who is also an outcast, meet while working for a circus.
Kallie George, 2010
8
The Institutes of Medicine: Martyn Paine
It is easily inferred that the diseases of the melancholic are mostly of the digestive organs, and that their removal is tedious. It is also manifest that these, and other affections, are slow in developing dis eases of other parts, and that the brain ...
Martyn Paine, 1870
9
Melancholia: A Disorder of Movement and Mood: A ...
This book describes the development of a behavioral sign-based approach, the CORE system, and demonstrates its superiority to previous symptom-based diagnostic systems for depression.
Gordon Parker, Dusan Hadzi-Pavlovic, 1996
10
Affective Disorder and the Writing Life: The Melancholic Muse
These essays explore how affective disorders colour, drive and sometimes silence the writing mind – and how affective difference has always informed the literary imagination.
Stephanie Stone Horton, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELANCHOLIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term melancholic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Alphabear, the amazingly addictive new word game with adorable …
Enter Alphabear, the latest game from the reliable Spry Fox (the studio responsible for 2014's thoughtful, melancholic Road Not Taken). «Vox, Jul 15»
2
Vatican Mayors Summit Spots Pope on Municipal Pulpit | Michael …
... at a whim," shields us from the direct pain of others, and creates a "deep and melancholic dissatisfaction with interpersonal relations.". «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Watch This Tiny Breakdancing Prodigy Bust Moves To Remove Dirt …
The original "Dirt is good" spot from 2008 was a thoughtful and rather melancholic affair, created by BBH, with a sad robot that eventually turned ... «Co.Create, Jul 15»
4
Not Going to Capitol Hill Block Party? - Music - The Stranger
... Joke), Mind Vice (hard-edged funk), Echo Ravine (sweetly melancholic pop, the only band of this two-day fest to include a female), and more. «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
5
Lafourcade Natalia - Los Angeles Times
"I wanted to connect with Latin America. The album really is made up of two parts: One of them is the very blue sound — it's super melancholic. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
6
Sinatra, The Man and his Music, London Palladium, review …
... Gardner, while the stage turned into a tormented purple sunset and a silky orchestra swept through melancholic chords and sinuous rhythms. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
7
Remembering Mukesh: The man with the golden voice - Entertainment
Mukesh was known for a melancholic quality that would move you into tears. On the legendary singer's birth anniversary today, we present ... «Mid-Day, Jul 15»
8
Elmore Magazine | Emmylou Harris & Rodney Crowell
... earth-bound “Higher Mountains”) that any of the other eight cozy, oft-times melancholic tunes from The Traveling Kind will be on our lips or in ... «Elmore Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Little Boots – Working Girl | Album Reviews | musicOMH
... Kylie Minogue or Madonna at their best, at others as dark and melancholic as Lykke Li. The excellent Taste It is an early standout track: sleek, ... «musicOMH.com, Jul 15»
10
An upskirt victim and her fears, AsiaOne Singapore News
The bubbly young woman turned melancholic when she related the degrading experience. "When I walked into the shop, I heard a clicking ... «AsiaOne, Jul 15»

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