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

• Doesn't the rain make you melancholic?
  下雨天没有让你忧郁吗？
• 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。
• John Donne the Melancholic
  忧郁的诗人&约翰多恩
• 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”。
• The night was as melancholic as his mood.
  夜晚和他的心情一样阴郁。
• "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
• They like extremes: they can be joyful and melancholic in a short period of time.
  巨蟹座的人好极端，在一段短时间内可以好快乐和好忧郁。
• LESLIE is melancholic, strong-willed and warm-hearted.
  LESLIE拥有忧郁、固执和热心肠的个性。
• I was becoming a melancholic.
  那时我渐渐成了个忧郁症患者。
• 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。