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elegiac

English

  1. 🔊 expressing sorrow often for something past
    “an elegiac lament for youthful ideals”
  2. 🔊 resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
    “an elegiac poem on a friend's death”

Similar words

alcaic anacreontic castalian homeric hudibrastic pierian pindaric theocritean bardic bucolic didactic dirgelike dithyrambic dramatic eclogic epic heroic idyllic knell-like mock-heroic narrative pastoral poetic poetico-mystical