elegiac
Valid in Scrabble
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- Words With Friends
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- Letters
- 7
/ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪək/
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/ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪək/ (UK) · /ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪˌæk/ (UK) · /ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪək/ (US) · /ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪˌæk/ (US) · /ɪˈlid͡ʒiˌæk/ (US)
Definition of elegiac
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Of or relating to an elegy.
“the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter”
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adj
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Of or relating to an elegy.
“the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter”
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Expressing sorrow or mourning.
“Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?”
“And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,”
noun
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A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
“His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin elegīacus, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγειακός (elegeiakós).
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