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melancholic

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11 lettersPart of speech adjective, nounSorted accehillmnoStarts with MEnds with C0 cluesCommon crossword word
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  1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

Word origin

From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.

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  • Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
  • But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, melancholic writings.

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