Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as elegiac.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Elegiac.

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  • adjective elegiac; expressing sorrow.

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Examples

  • My story, "The Last Elegy", takes up where the word elegiacal left off.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • My story, "The Last Elegy", takes up where the word elegiacal left off.

    Back in the Saddle 2007

  • What stories have I written that couldn't, in some way or another, be described as elegiacal?

    Elegiacal 2007

  • What stories have I written that couldn't, in some way or another, be described as elegiacal?

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • And then I saw the word "elegiacal", and I knew that would provide the solution.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • And then I saw the word "elegiacal", and I knew that would provide the solution.

    Elegiacal 2007

  • The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way.

    Archive 2010-01-01 2010

  • The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way.

    Choose Your Own Apocalypse 2010

  • Moving from place to place like some elegiacal Wanderer meant I didn't have a good run at making new friends either.

    How cool is the internet? wendigomountain 2008

  • With different words, you could run it as an elegiacal piece for someone dead.

    Pro-Hillary 527 Ad: "It Takes More" Than Speeches 2009

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