Definitions for elegiac

elegiac el·e·gi·ac

Spelling: [el-i-jahy-uh k, -ak, ih-lee-jee-ak]
IPA: /ˌɛl ɪˈdʒaɪ ək, -æk, ɪˈli dʒiˌæk/

Elegiac is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in elegiac (aceegil).

Definitions for elegiac

noun

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

adjective

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

Origin of elegiac

1575-85; (Middle French) Latin elegīacus Greek elegeiakós. See elegy, -ac

Examples for elegiac

She let him wait awhile—then went to him with an elegiac manner.

As David Quammen described in his elegiac The Song of the Dodo, islands are “where species go to die.”

Lyrical, satirical, and elegiac poetry had been carried to perfection.

“I drive through the streets and see people without hope,” he says in the elegiac narration that ends the film.

The dishes she had left he carried away with an elegiac solemnity.

In the fine melancholy of his elegiac poetry he is almost modern.

In this respect they are unlike the normal type of elegiac poetry.

Six Feet Under ended its six-season run with perhaps the most elegiac, moving final scene a series has ever produced.

They are variously loud, meditative, dramatic, witty, sexy, searing, and elegiac.

But he is one of the best deadline artists in the business, and his series on the dying of his father was unflinching and elegiac.

Word Value for elegiac
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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