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elegiac

Definition of elegiac

adjective

  • relating to or characteristic of an elegy:haunting and elegiac poems
  • wistfully mournful: she watched repeat serials, fixed on their moody and elegiac characterization

noun

(elegiacs)
  • verses in an elegiac metre.

Derivatives

elegiacally

adverb

Origin:

late 16th century: from French élégiaque, or via late Latin, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia (see elegy)

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