melancholic.html - n.
a mental illness marked by depression and ill-founded fears. [LL: see MELANCHOLY]

melancholic.html - n. & adj.
--n.

(pl. -ies)
1 a pensive sadness.
2 a mental depression. b a habitual or constitutional tendency to this.
3 hist. one of the four humours; black bile (see HUMOUR n. 5).

--adj.

(of a person) sad, gloomy; (of a thing) saddening, depressing; (of words, a tune, etc.) expressing sadness.

melancholic adj. melancholically adv. [ME f. OF melancolie f. LL melancholia f. Gk melagkholia f. melas melanos black + khole bile]

melancholic.html - n.
a mental illness marked by depression and ill-founded fears. [LL: see MELANCHOLY]

melancholic.html - n. & adj.
--n.

(pl. -ies)
1 a pensive sadness.
2 a mental depression. b a habitual or constitutional tendency to this.
3 hist. one of the four humours; black bile (see HUMOUR n. 5).

--adj.

(of a person) sad, gloomy; (of a thing) saddening, depressing; (of words, a tune, etc.) expressing sadness.

melancholic adj. melancholically adv. [ME f. OF melancolie f. LL melancholia f. Gk melagkholia f. melas melanos black + khole bile]

melancholic.html - n. & adj.
--n.

1 a member of the dominant Negroid people of Melanesia, an island group in the W. Pacific.
2 the language of this people.

--adj.

of or relating to this people or their language. [Melanesia f. Gk melas black + nesos island]

melancholic.html - n.
a dark-brown to black pigment occurring in the hair, skin, and iris of the eye, that is responsible for tanning of the skin when exposed to sunlight. [Gk melas melanos black + -IN]