English-Spanish translations for melancholic

• melancólico
  Señor Presidente, cuarenta años después de la firma del Tratado de Roma, hoy deliberamos sobre su tercera revisión en medio de un ambiente lamentablemente melancólico. Mr President, forty years after the Treaty of Rome was signed, we are now debating its third review in an atmosphere which is, unfortunately, melancholic.
  Espero que no sea un esfuerzo inútil, porque un pensador de mi tierra decía que el esfuerzo inútil conduce a la melancolía y, a estas horas de la noche, no quisiera ponerme melancólico. I hope it will not be a wasted effort, because a thinker from my country used to say that wasted effort leads to melancholy, and at this time of night I do not want to get melancholic.
• melancólica

Definition of melancholic

• Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature
• A person who is habitually melancholy

Related words

• melancholia
• melancholically
• melancholiness
• melancholiac