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Melancholic vs Gloomy - What's the difference?

melancholic | gloomy |

Gloomy is a synonym of melancholic.



As adjectives the difference between melancholic and gloomy

is that melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature while gloomy is imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.

As a noun melancholic

is a person who is habitually melancholy.

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? }}

    gloomy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
    • The cavern was gloomy .
  • Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.
    • a gloomy temper or countenance

    Synonyms

    * See also