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German
Etymology
Schwermut + -ig
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃveːɐ̯ˌmyːtɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /-ˌmyːtɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
- Hyphenation: schwer‧mü‧tig
Adjective
schwermütig (strong nominative masculine singular schwermütiger, comparative schwermütiger, superlative am schwermütigsten)
- melancholic
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 9:
Er war schwermütig geworden, konnte nicht, oder nicht recht arbeiten und hatte Sorge um die Erhaltung seiner Existenz, also melancholische Depression mit Arbeitshemmung und (berechtigter) Lebenssorge.- He had become melancholic, could not work, or not well, and had worries about sustaining his existence, thus a melancholic depression with work block and (justified) worries about life.
- Synonym: melancholisch
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