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elegiac
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el·e·gi·ac  (l-jk, -lj-k)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
2. Of or composed in elegiac couplets.

[Late Latin elegacus, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia, elegy; see elegy.]

ele·giac n.
ele·gia·cal adj.
ele·gia·cal·ly adv.

elegiac [ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək]
adj
1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy
2. lamenting; mournful; plaintive
3. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (often plural) an elegiac couplet or stanza
elegiacally  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.elegiac - resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
2.elegiac - expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13

elegiac
adjective (Literary) lamenting, sad, melancholy, nostalgic, mournful, plaintive, melancholic, sorrowful, funereal, valedictory, keening, dirgeful, threnodial, threnodic The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality.
Translations
elegiac [ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək] ADJelegíaco
elegiac [ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək] adj (literary) [quality, mood] → élégiaque
elegiac
adjelegisch
n usu pl (Liter) → elegischer Vers, Vers mim elegischen Versmaß
elegiac [ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək] adj (liter) → elegiaco/a
elegiac [ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək] adj (liter) → elegiaco/a


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The terraced, polyethylene-lined Caterpillar-crushed landmass is hard by the now-defunct works of Bethlehem Steel, smokestacks elegiacally dormant, the growing mound a symbol of consumption's triumph over production.
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21) The beloved of Lauro (Lorenzo), Ambra was pursued by the river-god, Ombrone, but before he could have his way with her, she was metamorphosed into rock, the very stone upon which Lorenzo's villa elegiacally rises, a memorial to this lost love.
 
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