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Meaning of Melancholic | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

A person who is habitually melancholy.

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Examples

“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?”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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