melancholic

英 [ˌmelənˈkɒlɪk]

美 [ˌmelənˈkɑːlɪk]

adj.  忧郁的; 忧郁症的
n.  忧郁症患者

复数：melancholics　

BNC.34412 / COCA.24867

牛津词典

adj.

• 忧郁的；忧郁症的
  feeling or expressing sadness, especially when the sadness is like an illness

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 忧郁的;忧伤的
  If you describe someone or something asmelancholic, you mean that they are very sad.
  1. The night was as melancholic as his mood.
     夜晚和他的心情一样阴郁。
  2. ...his gentle, melancholic songs.
     他温柔而伤感的歌曲
  3. Amelancholicis someone who is melancholic.
     忧郁的人
  4. ...a self-made man, energetic and obsessively orderly, a histrionic exhibitionist and a melancholic.
     一个白手起家、精力充沛且强迫性讲求整齐的人，一个装腔作势、好出风头的人，一个忧郁伤感的人

英英释义

noun

• someone subject to melancholia
  Synonym:melancholiac

adj

• characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  1. growing more melancholy every hour
  2. her melancholic smile
  3. we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
  Synonym:melancholy

双语例句

• Middle school student meet scale total points and every factor score with sanguine temperament and lymphatic temperament type it scores to be strong positive correlation, it is to shoulder relevant relations to get scores with the melancholic temperament strongly.
  中学生适应量表总分及各因子得分与多血质和粘液质类型得分呈强正相关关系，与抑郁质得分呈强负相关关系。
• As their descendant I only hope that I could be less melancholic on that day.
  作为后人，我只希望自己可以不要太伤感。
• As for temperament, the sanguine temperament, phlegmatic temperament and choleric temperament are positively related to resilience. All the three kind have a positive prediction towards resilience. The melancholic temperament indicates negative prediction to resiliency.
  在气质上，多血质、粘液质、胆汁质与心理弹性显著正相关，它们对心理弹性都有正向预测作用，抑郁质对心理弹性有负向预测作用。
• The most renowned Portuguese music is Fado, a form of melancholic music.
  最有名的葡萄牙音乐是法多（Fado），是一种表现忧郁音乐的形式。
• The night was as melancholic as his mood.
  夜晚和他的心情一样阴郁。
• The dark shadows on the canvas sings a melancholic tune that the aged, weighty eyes tell, and we find ourselves trapped in the spell of this theatricality.
  画布上黑暗的阴影以及苍老、沉重的眼睛彷佛唱著一首忧郁的小调，观者也彷佛掉进了画作戏剧性的魔咒里。
• "Who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures"
  在寻找故乡的忧郁灵魂时，发现了文化冲突和融合中的新的象征
• I intend to do everything I can to prove him wrong, or at least to fight that melancholic tendency with every tool in the shed.
  我打算尽自己所能证明他是错的，或至少用尽一切手段对抗忧郁倾向。
• I was becoming a melancholic.
  那时我渐渐成了个忧郁症患者。
• Maximilian Hecker describes his music as "melancholic pop hymns".
  麦斯米兰形容他们的音乐是“忧郁的流行赞美诗”。