sad(NOT HAPPY)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

Examples of melancholic

melancholic
The melancholic depressive patients were significantly more often in-patients, had more severe depression, and a lower level of functional capacity.
There were no statistically significant differences in age, gender, psychotic features, current employment, or marital status between patients with melancholic and non-melancholic features.
Although pre-morbid personality disorder has been omitted from the criteria of melancholic depression, the interest in its possible relationship to subtypes of depression persists.
This suggests that anxious depression may share some features with endogenous, melancholic subtypes of depression.
There appear to be no major differences in current co-morbidity, or course of depression between melancholic and non-melancholic patients.
Predicting the course of melancholic and nonmelancholic depression.
This is similar to the response typically associated with adult melancholic depression.
The melancholic is inherently suspicious, as is the slothful when trying constantly to hide his laziness.
In case polarity influenced any age effect, we repeated the correlations in our 39 bipolar melancholic subjects.
Differences in the course of melancholic and non-melancholic depression were very minor.
Finally, we compared the outcome of melancholic and non-melancholic depression.
At 6 months, 24 % (13/55) of the depressed patients were melancholic, the proportion rising to 36 % (16/45) at 18 months.
We also examined age effects, and for any differential effect of melancholic depressive status.
A great deal of progress has been made in elucidating the relation between stress and melancholic depression.
The melancholic is constantly agitated (inquietus), roams around day and night, and is usually drowsy.
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