elegiac

Plural: elegiacs

Adjective

• resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
  • "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"

Adjective Satellite

• expressing sorrow often for something past
  • "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

Adj

• Of or relating to an elegy.
• Expressing sorrow or mourning.

Noun

• A type of verse often used for laments or solemn themes.
• A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

Examples

• He lamented his terrible rack with an ELEGIAC sigh, wishing for better letters.
• the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter

Synonyms

atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

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