Melancholic vs Lamentable - What's the difference?
melancholic | lamentable |
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
* Prior
A person who is habitually melancholy.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 16, author=Garrison Keillor, title=Woe Be Gone, work=New York Times
, 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? }}
As adjectives the difference between melancholic and lamentable
is that melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature while lamentable is causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.As a noun melancholic
is a person who is habitually melancholy.melancholic
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Alternative forms
* melancholick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
Noun
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