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melancholian

melancholian noun: a person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.

Noun

melancholian (plural melancholians)

  1. (obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
    • And hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects

Forms of melancholian

pluralmelancholians

Questions about melancholian

What does melancholian mean?
Melancholian means a person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
What part of speech is melancholian?
Melancholian is a noun.
What is the plural of melancholian?
The plural of melancholian is melancholians.

Words near melancholian in the dictionary

  1. Melanaus
  2. Melanchlaeni
  3. melancholia
  4. melancholiac
  5. melancholiacs
  6. melancholian
  7. melancholians
  8. melancholias
  9. melancholic
  10. melancholic personality disorder
  11. melancholically

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