Difference between Sad and Melancholic

SAD vs MELANCHOLIC: NOUN

A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
A gloomy state of mind.
One who is affected with mental gloom; a hypochondriac; in pathology, one who suffers from melancholia; a melancholiac.
Someone subject to melancholia
A person who is habitually melancholy.

Dark-hued; somber.
Deplorable or inadequate; sorry.
Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing.
Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness.
Bad; unfortunate
Of things that make you feel sad
Soggy (to refer to pastries).
Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Appearing sorrowful.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
Dignified, serious, grave.
Steadfast, valiant.
Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
Heavy bread.
Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow.
Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.

Of or relating to melancholia.
Affected with or subject to melancholy.
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.

Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
Firm; solid; fixed.
Close; compact; hard; stiff; not light or soft.
Heavy; soggy; doughy; that has not risen well: as, sad bread.
Weighty; important; momentous.
Strong; stout: said of a person or an animal.
Settled; fixed; resolute.
Steadfast; constant; trusty; faithful.
Dire, deplorable.
Sorrowful; melancholy; mournful; dejected.
Expressing or marked by sorrow or melancholy.
Having the external appearance of sorrow; gloomy; downcast: as, a sad countenance.
Distressing; grievous; disastrous: as, a sad accident; a sad disappointment.
Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue.
Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown.
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Depressed, cheerless, desponding, disconsolate.
Sober; serious; grave; sedate; discreet; responsible; wise; sage.
Strongly; stiffly.
Soberly; prudently; discreetly.
Closely; firmly: as, to lie sad.
To make firm.
To strengthen; establish; confirm.
Unfortunate
Bad
Full; having had one's fill; sated; surfeited; hence, satiated; wearied; tired; sick.
To sadden; make sorrowful; grieve.

Producing melancholy; unfortunate; causing sorrow.
Produced by melancholy; expressive or suggestive of melancholy; somber; gloomy; mournful: as, melancholic strains.
Affected with melancholy; gloomy; hypochondriac.

Bad, Miserable, Mournful, Deplorable, Melancholy, Pitiful, Lamentable, Sadden, Sorrowful, Depressing, Bittersweet, Tragic, Sorry, Distressing, Saddening

Melodic, Plangent, Plaintive, Moody, Ruminative, Pensive, Introspective, Morose, Dreamy, Elegiac, Mournful, Wistful, Melancholiac, Sad, Melancholy

Bad, Miserable, Mournful, Deplorable, Melancholy, Pitiful, Lamentable, Sadden, Sorrowful, Depressing, Bittersweet, Tragic, Sorry, Distressing, Saddening

Lugubrious, Melodic, Plangent, Plaintive, Moody, Ruminative, Pensive, Introspective, Morose, Dreamy, Elegiac, Mournful, Wistful, Sad, Melancholy

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