Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--melancholic

[Dave Monroe]

A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg

This week's theme
Medicinal words to describe people

This week's words
choleric
phlegmatic
sanguine
melancholic

melancholic

PRONUNCIATION:
(mel-uhn-KOL-ik)

MEANING:
adjective:
1. Gloomy; wistful.
2. Saddening.
3. Of or related to melancholia.

ETYMOLOGY:
>From Latin melancholia, from Greek melancholia (the condition of
having an excess of black bile), from melan- (black) + chole (bile),
ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine) that is also
the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, gloaming, glimpse,
glass, arsenic, and cholera.

http://wordsmith.org/words/melancholic.html

USAGE:
"Zach Galifianakis: The only kind of music I do know how to play is
melancholic, sad stuff because nothing happy is coming out of my body
musically."
Kate Ward; Zach Galifianakis; Entertainment Weekly (New York); Jun 4, 2009.