11 letters · 20 points in Scrabble
noun someone subject to melancholia
adjective characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
originFrom Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0