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n. - Someone subject to sadness adj. - Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.

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  • Rembrandt and Velázquez — was ever described as melancholic and, indeed, showed any traces of the affliction.
  • The band's past is filled with beautiful and dense orchestrations that can only be described as melancholic and morose.
  • Speaking of Simon, Ritter recalls the melancholic side of that legendary songwriter in the epic "Another New World," as well as his perky side in "Lark."
  • This temperament the Elizabethans would have called melancholic; and Hamlet seems to be an example of it, as Lear is of a temperament mixedly choleric and sanguine.
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