melancholic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   marked by deep, pensive sadness or gloom

   A melancholic tune drifted from the half-open window.

From Late Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek melankholikós, from melagkholía ('black bile'), from mélas ('black') + kholḗ ('bile') — in humoral medicine an excess of black bile was thought to cause gloom.

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