Melancholic

Alternative forms

• melancholick obsolete

Origin

From Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikos, "atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament"), from μελαγχολία (melankholia, "melancholy").

Full definition of melancholic

Adjective

1. Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
• PriorJust as the melancholic eye
  Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

Noun

1. A person who is habitually melancholy.
• 2008, March 16, Garrison Keillor, Woe Be Gone, Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock , Tennessee Williams , Mark Rothko , melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil?