Elegiac

Definitions: Elegiac

Elegiac

Adjective

1. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death".

2. Expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals".

Date "elegiac" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interment	Adjective: burried. Verb: burial, funereal, funebrial; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary; elegiac; necroscopic.
Lamentation	Elegiac, epicedial.
Poetry	Elegiacs; Adjective: elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
	Adjective: poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic; Noun: metrical; a catalectin; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Elegiac

English words defined with "elegiac": elegiac stanza, Elegiacal, Epicedial, Epode ♦ Ovid ♦ Publius Ovidius Naso. (references)

Etymologies containing "elegiac": Elegy. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Elegiac" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (doleful, elegiac).

Domain	Title
Books	Book of Elegiac Geography (reference) Creative Mimesis of Emotion - From Sorrow to Elation; Elegiac (ANALECTA HUSSERLIANA Volume LXII) (reference) Elegiac Feelings American. (reference) Elegiac Romance: Cultural Change and Loss of the Hero in Modern Fiction (reference) Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries Bc (Loeb Classical Library, No 258) (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Elegiac [LIVE] (reference) Elegiac Cycle (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Elegiac" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 78.57% of the time. "Elegiac" is used about 42 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	78.57%	33	60,273
Noun (proper)	19.05%	8	124,375
Noun (singular)	2.38%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	42	N/A

Expressions using "elegiac": elegiac poetry ♦ elegiac stanza ♦ elegiac verse. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "elegiac"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		elegjiak, i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, comfortless, dark, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Arabic		‏رثائي. (various references)

Bulgarian		тъжен (bleak, cheerless, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, dull, dusky, gloomy, heavy, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, mournful, pensive, plaintive, sad, sick, sickly, sorrowful, tristful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful), елегичен. (various references)

Chinese		�"�伤 (SAD). (various references)

Czech		smutný (dismal, distressing, doleful, gloomy, miserable, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, tearful, unhappy, upset, woeful, woesome). (various references)

French		élégiaque. (various references)

Greek		πένθιμοσ (funeral, funereal, lugubrious, mournful, mourning, sable), ελεγειακόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		מקו� ן (mourner). (various references)

Hungarian		gyászos (calamitous, doleful, funereal, gray, grey, grim, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, tragic), elégikus, gyászos hangulatú. (various references)

Italian		elegiaco. (various references)

Manx		bardoonagh (bard, bardic, elegist, tragical poet). (various references)

Pig Latin		elegiacay.(various references)

Portuguese		dama elegante. (various references)

Romanian		elegie (dirge, elegy, lament, lamentation, threnody), elegiac (doleful), trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, glum, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful). (various references)

Russian		элегический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		elegičan, tužan (disappointing, dismal, distressed, distressful, distressing, doleful, dumpish, funereal, grievous, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, mirthless, plaintive, sad, tearful, unhappy, wailful, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Spanish		elegíaco. (various references)

Swedish		elegisk. (various references)

Turkish		yanık (burn, on, scald, weather beaten, weather-worn), melankolik (melancholic, melancholy, spleenful, spleenish), karasevdalı (besotted, demented, infatuated, melancholic, spleenful, spleenish), hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, downcast, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, melancholic, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful), ağıt tarzında, ağıt (coronach, dirge, elegy, keening, lament, lamentation, mourning, threnode, threnody, wailing). (various references)

Ukranian		сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, comfortless, damp, dark, deplorable, despondent, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful, wan), елегійний (elegiacal). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "elegiac": elegiacal, elegiacally, elegiacs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Elegiac" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elagaic, elasica, elegaic, Elegia, elegie, elegiec, Elenica, eligiac, Eligio, ellagic, elogia, elwesii, Erleia, ilegiac, Olesiak, pelagian, Welega. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-l"
	-2 letters: agile, aglee, eagle, glace, ileac, liege.
	-3 letters: agee, alec, alee, cage, ceil, clag, egal, gale, glee, glia, ilea, lace, laic, lice.
	-4 letters: ace, age, ail, ale, cee, cel, cig, eel, gae, gal, gee, gel, gie, ice, lac, lag, lea, lee, leg, lei, lie.
	-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, al, el, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-l"
	+1 letter: elegiacs, legacies.
	+2 letters: algaecide, clientage, elegiacal, evangelic, genetical, sacrilege, viceregal.
	+3 letters: algaecides, allegiance, allergenic, allogeneic, clientages, collegiate, delegacies, elegancies, epipelagic, exegetical, geniculate, geodetical, inelegance, recleaning, sacrileges.
	+4 letters: allegiances, calendering, celebrating, deglaciated, elegiacally, enucleating, eugenically, evangelical, freelancing, geanticline, generically, genetically, geniculated, geochemical, geometrical, gesticulate, glycerinate, gracileness, griddlecake, inelegances, medicolegal, mesopelagic, oligochaete, plangencies, praelecting, precleaning, preclearing, telecasting, telegraphic, viceregally.
	+5 letters: accelerating, acromegalies, archeologies, autecologies, cartwheeling, chalcogenide, cheerleading, cladogenesis, cladogenetic, collegiately, decelerating, decreasingly, deescalating, epexegetical, escapologies, evangelicals, evangelistic, geanticlines, genealogical, geotechnical, gesticulated, gesticulates, glycerinated, glycerinates, griddlecakes, legitimacies, oceanologies, oligochaetes, overcleaning, overclearing, palingenetic, precanceling, rechanneling, recognizable, reescalating, relacquering, teleological.
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