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Melancholic vs Nihilistic - What's the difference?

melancholic | nihilistic |

As adjectives the difference between melancholic and nihilistic

is that melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature while nihilistic is of or relating to nihilism.

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? }}

    nihilistic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to nihilism.