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Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

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  1. a. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
  2. n. One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
  3. n. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
  4. adj. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  5. n. someone subject to melancholia
  6. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior. 1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser. 2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. Clarendon.
  7. Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.
  8. j:100 n. someone subject to melancholia