About The Word Elegiac
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Elegiac
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What's The Definition Of Elegiac?
[adj] expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
[adj] resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death" Synonyms | Synonyms for Elegiac: sorrowful Related Terms | Find terms related to Elegiac: Alcaic | Anacreontic | bardic | bucolic | Castalian | didactic | dirgelike | dithyrambic | dramatic | eclogic | epic | heroic | Homeric | Hudibrastic | idyllic | knell-like | mock-heroic | narrative | pastoral | Pierian | Pindaric | poetic | poetico-mystical | poetico-mythological | poetico-philosophic | poetlike | rhapsodic | runic | sapphic | skaldic | Theocritean | threnodic See Also | Elegiac In Webster's Dictionary \E*le"gi*ac\ (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F.
['e]l['e]giaque. See {Elegy}.]
1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive;
expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay;
elegiac strains.
Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. --Mrs.
Browning.
2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or
couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and
pentameter.
\E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse. |
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