Canadian English Meaning of elegiac

elegiac

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Definitions and Meaning of elegiac in English

Wordnet

elegiac (a)

resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

Wordnet

elegiac (s)

expressing sorrow often for something past

Webster

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.

Webster

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,somber,sombre,bleak

blithe,bright,buoyant,chipper,cheerful,comforting,cordial,festive,friendly,queer

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