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?
- give someone a fit
- give someone a hard time
- give someone a holler
- give someone a mouthful
- give someone an inch and he (or she) will take a mile
- give someone a piece of one's mind
- give someone a shout
- give someone away
- give someone Bondi
- give someone credit for
- give someone grief
- give someone head
- give someone hell
- give someone one
- give someone (or get) a thick ear
- give someone (or get) the bum's rush
- give someone (some) skin
- give someone the big E
- give someone the bird
- give someone the boot
- give someone the creeps
- give someone the elbow
- give someone (the) evils
- give someone the eye
- give someone the finger