Elegiac is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ELEGIAC in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a verse line of five dactyls with a marked caesura
• verses in an elegiac metre.
• Elegiac verse.
• elegiac couplet or stanza
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to elegy, also ELEGIACAL
• relating to or characteristic of an elegy
• wistfully mournful
• mournful or plaintive
• Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
• Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
• resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
• expressing sorrow often for something past
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a type of verse

Words related to ELEGIAC

elegiacal12 elegiacally17 elegiacs11

Words that contain ELEGIAC

elegiacs11 elegiacal12 elegiacally17

How to use ELEGIAC in a sentence

• The crickets have stopped singing, and the garden is sad with elegiac blooms.
• Selections from the Greek elegiac, iambic, and lyric poets.
• Everywhere else the ideas of contrast appear and the enjoyment of nature is elegiac or satiric.
• His verses, which are often elegiac or fantastic, are highly admired by the younger generation of Mexican poets.
• I am very merry, and have just been writing some elegiac stanzas on the death of Sir P.
• As an elegiac poet a high rank must be awarded to Propertius, and among the ancients it was a disputed point whether the preference should be given to him or to Tibullus.
• In this alcove hewed out of the dark trees, the atmosphere seemed to Denis agreeably elegiac.
• His remains were interred in the churchyard of Strachan, Kincardineshire, where a tombstone, inscribed with some elegiac verses, has been erected to his memory.
• He is occasionally humorous, but he excels in the plaintive and elegiac.
• Thomson in the most sincere inward sorrow, he wrote an elegiac poem, which does honour to the author, and to the memory of that great man he meant to celebrate.
• And in whose manners Was all the amiable simplicity Of pastoral poetry, With the sweet tenderness Of the elegiac.
• Yet he too was elegiac, sentimental, pretty, even when his style was most deft and his representations most engaging.
• The mood of most of these was of course elegiac and the motive was to show how much splendor had perished in the downfall of the old regime.
• Such was the death of James Graham, the great marquis of Montrose, over whom some lowly bard has poured forth the following elegiac verses.
• In every variety of measure, heroic, elegiac, lyrical, the wild old Scandinavian tradition is told.
• I have not interpreted the term lyric so rigidly as to exclude sonnets, ballads, elegiac verse, or even pieces of almost pure description.

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