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melancholist

melancholist noun: one affected with melancholy or dejection.

Noun

melancholist (plural melancholists)

  1. One affected with melancholy or dejection.
    • the Melancholist was afraid to ſit down for fear of being broken, ſuppoſing himself of Glass1676, Joseph Glanvill, The Usefulness of Real Philosophy to Religion
    • YoungBoy's closest contemporary analogues are also colossally popular artists with devoted cult followings who just barely limn the pop mainstream: the bluesy melancholist Rod Wave and the rage-rap vampire Playboi Carti.2025 November 15, Jon Caramanica, “NBA YoungBoy, Rap's Defining 2025 Superstar, Is Hiding in Plain Sight”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

Forms of melancholist

pluralmelancholists

Origin of melancholist

From melancholy + -ist.

Questions about melancholist

What does melancholist mean?
Melancholist means one affected with melancholy or dejection.
What part of speech is melancholist?
Melancholist is a noun.
What is the plural of melancholist?
The plural of melancholist is melancholists.

Words near melancholist in the dictionary

  1. melancholily
  2. melancholiness
  3. melancholious
  4. melancholiously
  5. melancholish
  6. melancholist
  7. melancholists
  8. melancholize
  9. melancholized
  10. melancholizes
  11. melancholizing

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