Melancholic vs Woebegone - What's the difference?
melancholic | woebegone |
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? }}
In a deplorable state.
Filled with or deeply affected by woe.
* 1957 , Jack Kerouac, On The Road?
As adjectives the difference between melancholic and woebegone
is that melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature while woebegone is in a deplorable state.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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woebegone
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Adjective
(en adjective)- When he was finished, as such, he was wringing wet, and now he had to edge and shimmy his way back, and with a most woebegone look, and everybody laughing, except the sad blond boy, and the Minnesotans roaring in the cab.