melancholiac
/mel-uhn-koh-lee-ak/US // ˌmɛl ənˈkoʊ liˌæk //
忧郁症患者,忧郁的人,忧郁症,忧郁症者
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : affected with melancholia.
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a person who is affected with melancholia.
Examples
I dare say I am—but I do object to being made out a hopeless melancholiac!
She was as used to loneliness as a hotel melancholiac; the people they had known had drifted away to far suburbs.
A man subjected long to that soul-cramping stress, with no outlet or abatement, would have become a melancholiac.
His attitude toward them is that of the paranoiac, vindictive, rather than that of the melancholiac, humiliated.
In short, she gave them the impression that Alfred was a moping melancholiac.
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