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melancholic

adj

Etymology

From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.

  1. derived from μελαγχολικός
  2. derived from melancholicus

Definitions

  1. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a…

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

    • Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
    • But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

  2. Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).

  3. Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person who is habitually melancholy.

The neighborhood

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A definitional loop anchored at melancholic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at melancholic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at melancholic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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