Melancholiac (Noun)
Meaning
Someone subject to melancholia.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The poet's melancholiac nature often found expression in his somber and introspective verse.
- As a melancholiac, she tended to dwell on the disappointments and setbacks of her life.
- The artist's melancholiac moods often inspired some of his most beautiful and haunting works.
- Despite his sunny disposition on the surface, he was a melancholiac at heart, prone to dark moods and introspection.
- The novelist's protagonist was a classic melancholiac, forever lost in thought and plagued by existential doubts.