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elegiac

[ el-i-jahy-uhk, -ak, ih-lee-jee-ak ]

adjective

  1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
  2. expressing sorrow or lamentation:

    elegiac strains.

  3. Classical Prosody. noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.


noun

  1. an elegiac or distich verse.
  2. a poem in such distichs or verses.

elegiac

/ ˌɛ±ôɪˈ»åÏô²¹ÉªÉ™°ì /

adjective

  1. resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy
  2. lamenting; mournful; plaintive
  3. denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. often plural an elegiac couplet or stanza
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ËŒ±ð±ô±ðˈ²µ¾±²¹³¦²¹±ô±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±ð±ôe·²µ¾±î€ƒa·³¦²¹±ô·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of elegiac1

First recorded in 1575–85; from Middle French, from Latin ±ð±ô±ð²µÄ«²¹³¦³Ü²õ, from Greek ±ð±ô±ð²µ±ð¾±²¹°ìó²õ; equivalent to elegy + -ac
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Its Jan. 27 cover was an elegant and elegiac illustration of seven long-legged, shaggy-capped palms against a menacing ombre orange backdrop of approaching fire.

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McKenna spoke his mind in public and private with elegiac and sometimes lengthy eloquence, but was frustrated at his lack of success in behind-the-scenes political maneuvering to advance his favored policies.

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Lourdes Portillo’s elegiac “Senorita Extraviada†documents with low-key persistence the conditions in Ciudad Juarez that make some say, “There is no better place in the world to kill a young woman.â€

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It’s an elegiac relationship, compounded by the recent passing of my grandmother, who embodied holiness and unadulterated love in every sense.

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While his early novels paid fealty to the expansive, twisty prose of Faulkner and the unsettling Southern gothic of O’Connor, his poetry and later novels moved toward the elegiac sentiments and literary precision of Welty.

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