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melancholisch

German, adjective[melaŋˈkoːlɪʃ]

melancholisch is spelled M-E-L-A-N-C-H-O-L-I-S-C-H (13 letters) and appears 1.2 times per million words in written German, the 34,034th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Melancholisch is a German adjective meaning “melancholic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “schwermütig, Melancholie habend”.

What does melancholisch mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    melancholic

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. schwermütig, Melancholie habend

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of melancholisch

  • melancholischer masculine nominative singular
  • am melancholischsten superlative
  • melancholische feminine nominative singular
  • melancholisches neuter nominative singular
  • melancholischen genitive masculine singular
  • melancholischem dative masculine singular
  • der melancholische definite includes-article masculine
  • die melancholische definite feminine includes-article
  • das melancholische definite includes-article neuter
  • die melancholischen definite includes-article nominative
  • des melancholischen definite genitive includes-article
  • der melancholischen definite feminine genitive
  • dem melancholischen dative definite includes-article

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce melancholisch?

  • [melaŋˈkoːlɪʃ]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to melancholisch

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is melancholisch in German?

melancholisch appears 1.2 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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