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词汇 melancholic
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Definition of melancholic in English:

melancholic

adjective mɛlənˈkɒlɪk
  • 1Feeling or expressing pensive sadness.

    his work often has a wistful or melancholic mood
    a haunting, melancholic melody
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She is accompanied by the sound of a melancholic piano.
    • Several film noir techniques are used to enhance the film's melancholic bleakness.
    • In the end, the air of melancholic reverie begins to get a little cloying.
    • His intense, poetic depictions of northern scenery have become a byword for a melancholic, spiritually inspired attitude to nature.
    • The unsmiling subjects in his deeply shadowed, melancholic portraits seem drained of emotion, perhaps worn out by life's events.
    • A thread of melancholic romanticism ran through much of the work on view.
    • Shot in a peculiar and dreamlike blue-and-white color scheme, the entire film feels wet and melancholic, like a fevered dream.
    • Through its melancholic denial of the infirmities of age, this story affirms the possibility of making reparations for the past.
    • Typically his work is elegantly drawn, with a melancholic air.
    • He plays with sharp alternations of mood, from the high-spirited to the melancholic in a single sentence or musical cue.
    1. 1.1 Suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression.
      patients with melancholic depression
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The authors analyzed data on 664 patients with either severe, melancholic, or recurrent depression.
      • Fifty-five percent of the patients were diagnosed as melancholic.
      • This is the most robust treatment response for a SSRI in a melancholic population.
      • There is now substantial evidence that suggests that SSRIs are less effective in the treatment of the melancholic subtype of major depressive disorder.
      • It is often suggested that endogenous or melancholic depressions are more severe forms of depression.
      • These data suggest that SSRIs produce modest response rates in elderly patients regardless of whether they have a melancholic diagnosis.
      • Freud describes the melancholic person's relationship to the lost object, which is preserved via the process of identification.
      • They retrospectively contrasted the treatment responses of these substances in a group of depressed melancholic geriatric inpatients with severe cardiovascular disease.
      • The diagnosis of endogenous depression is comparable to major depressive disorder with melancholic features.
      • The sample was largely melancholic, most had separation anxiety, and 96 percent had been ill for more than two years.

Derivatives

  • melancholically

  • adverb mɛlənˈkɒlɪk(ə)li
    • He melancholically contemplates whether he's man or monster.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He sighed melancholically, looking thoroughly defeated.
      • "Time is plentiful here," he writes melancholically in his diary.
      • Their vocals murmur melancholically, and every listen reveals something else in the depths of sound that you hadn't noticed before.
      • These are the songs that'll make people tap their feet and drink melancholically but not realize the twisting genius lurking within until generations later.

Rhymes

alcoholic, anabolic, apostolic, bucolic, carbolic, chocoholic, colic, diabolic, embolic, frolic, hydraulic, hyperbolic, metabolic, parabolic, rollick, shambolic, shopaholic, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic

Definition of melancholic in US English:

melancholic

adjectiveˈˌmelənˈˌkälik
  • 1Feeling or expressing pensive sadness.

    his work often has a wistful or melancholic mood
    a haunting, melancholic melody
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The unsmiling subjects in his deeply shadowed, melancholic portraits seem drained of emotion, perhaps worn out by life's events.
    • Shot in a peculiar and dreamlike blue-and-white color scheme, the entire film feels wet and melancholic, like a fevered dream.
    • She is accompanied by the sound of a melancholic piano.
    • His intense, poetic depictions of northern scenery have become a byword for a melancholic, spiritually inspired attitude to nature.
    • In the end, the air of melancholic reverie begins to get a little cloying.
    • Through its melancholic denial of the infirmities of age, this story affirms the possibility of making reparations for the past.
    • Typically his work is elegantly drawn, with a melancholic air.
    • He plays with sharp alternations of mood, from the high-spirited to the melancholic in a single sentence or musical cue.
    • Several film noir techniques are used to enhance the film's melancholic bleakness.
    • A thread of melancholic romanticism ran through much of the work on view.
    1. 1.1 Suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression.
      patients with melancholic depression
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The diagnosis of endogenous depression is comparable to major depressive disorder with melancholic features.
      • Freud describes the melancholic person's relationship to the lost object, which is preserved via the process of identification.
      • The sample was largely melancholic, most had separation anxiety, and 96 percent had been ill for more than two years.
      • Fifty-five percent of the patients were diagnosed as melancholic.
      • They retrospectively contrasted the treatment responses of these substances in a group of depressed melancholic geriatric inpatients with severe cardiovascular disease.
      • These data suggest that SSRIs produce modest response rates in elderly patients regardless of whether they have a melancholic diagnosis.
      • The authors analyzed data on 664 patients with either severe, melancholic, or recurrent depression.
      • It is often suggested that endogenous or melancholic depressions are more severe forms of depression.
      • This is the most robust treatment response for a SSRI in a melancholic population.
      • There is now substantial evidence that suggests that SSRIs are less effective in the treatment of the melancholic subtype of major depressive disorder.
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