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melancholics

melancholics is the plural of melancholic.

Meaning of melancholic

Noun

melancholic (plural melancholics)

  1. A person who is habitually melancholy.
    • Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock, Tennessee Williams, Mark Rothko, melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil?2008 March 16, Garrison Keillor, “Woe Be Gone”, in New York Times

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Questions about melancholics

What is melancholics the plural of?
Melancholics is the plural of melancholic.

Words near melancholics in the dictionary

  1. melancholically
  2. melancholick
  3. melancholicke
  4. melancholickes
  5. melancholicks
  6. melancholics
  7. melancholie
  8. melancholies
  9. melancholily
  10. melancholiness
  11. melancholious

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