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English to English adjective
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resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy |  | Example: an elegiac poem on a friend's death
source: wordnet30
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Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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expressing sorrow often for something past | | Example: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals
source: wordnet30 noun
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Elegiac verse. | | source: webster1913
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