Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
elegiac .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Elegiac.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
elegiac ; expressingsorrow .
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Examples
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My story, "The Last Elegy", takes up where the word elegiacal left off.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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My story, "The Last Elegy", takes up where the word elegiacal left off.
Back in the Saddle 2007
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What stories have I written that couldn't, in some way or another, be described as elegiacal?
Elegiacal 2007
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What stories have I written that couldn't, in some way or another, be described as elegiacal?
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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And then I saw the word "elegiacal", and I knew that would provide the solution.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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And then I saw the word "elegiacal", and I knew that would provide the solution.
Elegiacal 2007
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The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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The story is both elegiacal and optimistic in a rather typically science fictional way.
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Moving from place to place like some elegiacal Wanderer meant I didn't have a good run at making new friends either.
How cool is the internet? wendigomountain 2008
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With different words, you could run it as an elegiacal piece for someone dead.
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