melancholiac
/mɛlənˈkəʊlɪak
/ /mɛlənˈkəʊlɪak / /mɛlənˈkɒlɪak /rare
noun
A person suffering from melancholia or depression: Ovid’s portrayal of Sappho as a desolate melancholiac...
- He argues that the melancholiac's self-loathing disguises a hostility towards the lost, beloved object, indicating an underlying ambivalence towards it.
- Do these films transform us into male melancholiacs, or are we merely passive spectators?
- I would argue that Max is a secret melancholiac: he cannot commence mourning because he has not acknowledged that he lost something in the crash.
adjective
Relating to or suffering from melancholia or depression: another melancholiac drummer turned songwriter...
- The ranks of mannerist musicians furnish numerous instances of melancholiac and eccentric artists.
- The narrative returns to human losses and the melancholiac recapitulations of grief.
- Did Mr. Follett strike you as a melancholiac type?
- peripheral edema
- peripheralisation
- peripheralise
- peripheralism
- peripheralist
- peripherality
- peripheralization
- peripheralize
- peripherally
- peripheral nerve
- peripheral nervous system
- in the middle of
- in the name of
- in the nature of
- in the nature of things
- in the neighbourhood of
- in the nick of time
- in the nip
- in the nude
- in the offing
- in the ordinary way
- in the (or in no) mood for/to do something
- in the (or one's) road
- in the (or one's) way
- in theory