Sadistic vs Melancholic - What's the difference?
sadistic | melancholic |
Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
Of behaviour which gives pleasure in the pain of others.
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 sadistic and melancholic
is that sadistic is delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain of others while melancholic is filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.As a noun melancholic is
a person who is habitually melancholy.sadistic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
melancholic
English
Alternative forms
* melancholick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.
Noun
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