Australian English Meaning of elegiac
elegiac
Other Australian English words related to elegiac
- chill, cool
- depressing
- depressive
- funereal
- lonely
- morbid
- solemn
- sombre
- sombre
- bleak
- Cheerless
- overcast
- cold
- cheerless
- dark
- darkening
- depressed
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dismal
- Dreary
- forlorn
- gloomy
- gloomy
- grey
- grey
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- melancholic
- melancholy
- glum
- mournful
- murky
- Plutonian
- sad
- Saturnine
- sepulchral
- sullen
- tenebrous
- blue
- Cimmerian
- Colourless
- dejected
- desperate
- despondent
- dim
- Disconcerting
- disheartening
- disheartening
- daunting
- disheartening
- distressful
- distressing
- dour
- down
- drab
- droopy
- dull
- God-forsaken
- grim
- hangdog
- hopeless
- inconsolable
- lamentable
- Low
- menacing
- cheerless
- negative
- oppressive
- pessimistic
- plaintive
- sorrowful
- sunless
- tenebrific
- threatening
- unhappy
- upsetting
- woebegone
- woeful
- gloomy
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Definitions and Meaning of elegiac in English
elegiac (a)
resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
elegiac (s)
expressing sorrow often for something past
elegiac (a.)
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
elegiac (n.)
verse.
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elegiac
resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy, expressing sorrow often for something pastBelonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; exp
chill, cool,depressing,depressive,funereal,lonely,morbid,solemn,sombre,sombre,bleak
blithe,bright,buoyant,bright,cheerful,comforting,cordial,festive,friendly,poofter
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