Melancholic vs. Melancholy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Melancholic and Melancholy
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Melancholic
Feeling or expressing pensive sadness
His work often has a wistful or melancholic mood
A haunting, melancholic melody
Melancholy
A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
He had an ability to convey a sense of deep melancholy and yearning through much of his work
An air of melancholy surrounded him
At the centre of his music lies a profound melancholy and nostalgia
Melancholic
Affected with or subject to melancholy.
Melancholy
Having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive
She felt a little melancholy
A dark, melancholy young man with deep-set eyes
Melancholic
Of or relating to melancholia.
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Melancholy
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
Melancholic
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Melancholy
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
Melancholic
(dated) Pertaining to black bile (melancholy).
Melancholy
Black bile.
Melancholic
(classical temperament) Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.
Melancholy
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.
Melancholic
A person who is habitually melancholy.
Melancholy
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
Melancholic
Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Just as the melancholic eyeSees fleets and armies in the sky.
Melancholy
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom
A letter with some melancholy news.
Melancholic
One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
Melancholy
Pensive; thoughtful.
Melancholic
A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
Melancholy
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
Melancholic
Someone subject to melancholia
Melancholy
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Melancholic
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
Growing more melancholy every hour
Her melancholic smile
We acquainted him with the melancholy truth
Melancholy
(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Melancholy people don't talk much.
Melancholy
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Melancholy
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
Melancholy
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Melancholy
Ill nature.
Melancholy
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Melancholy
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
Melancholy
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Melancholy
Favorable to meditation; somber.
A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
Melancholy
A feeling of thoughtful sadness
Melancholy
A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Melancholy
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Melancholy
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
Growing more melancholy every hour
Her melancholic smile
We acquainted him with the melancholy truth
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