Words Like ELEGIAC
We have put together a list of words that are similar to ELEGIAC.
2 Alternative Words Similar to elegiac
2 examples of elegiac
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an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
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elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
10 definitions of elegiac
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Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation
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expressing sorrow often for something past
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resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
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Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
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Of or composed in elegiac couplets.
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In ancient prosody, an epithet noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot, thus:
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Belonging to an elegy, or to elegy; having to do with elegies.
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Expressing sorrow or lamentation: as, elegiac strains.