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elegiac
adjective
(el-e-gi-ac)
expressing sorrow often for something past
Examples:
An elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
elegiac
(el-e-gi-ac)
resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
Examples:
An elegiac poem on a friend's death.
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sorrowful
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melancholic
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poetic
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epicedial
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gemlike
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affectless
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elegiac
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By: Jamie
From:
Words From Novels or Stories - Dec 2018
The poem was an elegy to his mother, he said it with such an elegiac manner, the pain he was feeling was palpable.