<adj.all> growing more melancholy every hour her melancholic smile we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
Melancholic \Mel"an*chol`ic\, a. [L. melancholicus, Gr. ?: cf. F. m['e]lancholique.] Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. --Prior.
Melancholic \Mel"an*chol`ic\, n. [Obs.] 1. One affected with a gloomy state of mind. --J. Spenser.
2. A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. --Clarendon.
The set's sub-title 'a white shade of blue', is also accurate, pointing to the fact that these white bluesmen of the 1920s and 1930s were more melancholic and rural and less mythic and impassioned than their black brothers.
Valentina, a softly-spoken, melancholic woman, said: 'We are short of all sorts of things - thread, needles. Supplies are very irregular.
The opening songs were equally melancholic, with Young, digging deep into his roots for 'Southern Man' and the stricken 'Helpless'.
A few years later, still sloshing through an uneventful and melancholic life in Trieste, she returns home one night to find Paolo and their son.
Her rich contralto with its melancholic underpinnings sweep us back to the early 1970s _ to Joan Armatrading, Carol King and Joni Mitchell.
There are the melancholic strains of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven, and the darkness of a black tunnel representing the fallen cooling tower at the plant, which was among Kostin's first sights when he arrived there 11 hours after the explosion and fire.