melancholic

Other forms of melancholic

plural

melancholics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about melancholic

What does melancholic mean?

melancholic means "someone subject to melancholia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in melancholic?

melancholic has 4 syllables: mel-an-cho-lic. The stress falls on "cho". In IPA it is /ˌmɛlənˈkɑlɪk/.

What is another word for melancholic?

Close synonyms include melancholiac, melancholy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is melancholic a common word?

melancholic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with melancholic?

1 word rhymes with melancholic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.