melancholic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A person who is habitually melancholy.

— Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock, Tennessee Williams, Mark Rothko, melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil?

形容词 adj.

Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

— Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
Pertaining to black bile (melancholy). dated
Pertaining to the melancholic temperament or its associated personality traits.

词形变化

more melancholic comparative most melancholic superlative melancholick alternative,obsolete melancholicke alternative,obsolete melancholike alternative,obsolete melancholics plural melancholick alternative,obsolete melancholicke alternative,obsolete melancholike alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词

antimelancholic melancholically nonmelancholic unmelancholic

词源

词源 1

From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.

词源 2

From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.