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

• A Melancholic Screen Poet
  忧郁气质的银幕诗人
• John Donne the Melancholic
  忧郁的诗人&约翰多恩
• 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。
• Blues: Afro-American People's melancholic musical and literary expression
  布鲁斯：美国黑人忧伤的音乐和文学诉说&布鲁斯及其在《看不见的人》和《所罗门之歌》中的运用
• Growing more melancholy every hour; her melancholic smile; we acquainted him with the melancholy truth.
  每一刻都变得更加忧郁；她忧郁的微笑；我们知晓他忧郁的原因。
• A absurd tragedy, to accompany a melancholic song by the Tiger Lillies.
  一出荒诞的悲剧，在泰戈莱利斯犹豫的歌声中缓缓上演。
• And each of them, to my eye, looks exactly as it did when the rollout began& 13,000 ubiquitous and faintly melancholic time-capsule museums of the last best American decade.
  在我看来，每一家都和它最初的样子差不多&13000个无处不在、略带忧郁的时光胶囊博物馆，封存着上一个美国的黄金十年的样子。
• This one was poignant, almost melancholic, as kilar reminisced about a company he transformed from an empty office suite in 2007 into one that has attracted more than 3 million paying subscribers and generated$ 700 million in revenue in 2012.
  他把这家公司从2007年一个空无一物的办公套间做成一个吸引了超过300万付费用户，2012年收入达到7亿美元的庞然大物。
• These landscapes are endlessly melancholic.
  这些风景是无穷尽的忧郁症。
• Doesn't the rain make you melancholic?
  下雨天没有让你忧郁吗？