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Frustrated vs Melancholic - What's the difference?

frustrated | melancholic |

As adjectives the difference between frustrated and melancholic

is that frustrated is foiled, stopped, disappointed while melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

As a verb frustrated

is (frustrate).

As a noun melancholic is

a person who is habitually melancholy.

frustrated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (frustrate)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • foiled, stopped, disappointed
  • suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, and/or discontent because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire.
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.}}

    Derived terms

    * frustratedly

    Related terms

    * frustrating

    melancholic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * melancholick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
  • * Prior
    • Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is habitually melancholy.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 16, author=Garrison Keillor, title=Woe Be Gone, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Kafka, Hart Crane, Jackson Pollock , Tennessee Williams , Mark Rothko , melancholics all, so why shouldn’t we accept our own bleakness and take long walks in the winter woods and look at the gnarled limbs of trees and struggle with the inscrutable and accept the beauty of permanent turmoil? }}