Words Like ELEGIAC

We have put together a list of words that are similar to ELEGIAC.

2 Alternative Words Similar to elegiac

1 Sorrowful Adjective      Similar Words Like Sorrowful
2 Plaintive Adjective      Synonym Words Like Plaintive

2 examples of elegiac

1 an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
2 elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

10 definitions of elegiac

1 Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation
2 Used in elegies
3 Elegiac verse.
4 expressing sorrow often for something past
5 resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
6 Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
7 Of or composed in elegiac couplets.
8 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:
9 Belonging to an elegy, or to elegy; having to do with elegies.
10 Expressing sorrow or lamentation: as, elegiac strains.
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