OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20581

melancholic

Meanings (ES + gloss)
melancólico
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
But he was also a natural chronicler: one senses that, even as his schemes collapsed, this aesthetic Arab Quixote knew the stories would make great material for his witty, sharp, m…
Just as the melancholic eye / Sees fleets and armies in the sky.