elegiac

elegiac is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
2. adjective. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
3. noun. Elegiac verse.
4. adjective. expressing sorrow often for something past

   "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

5. adjective. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

   "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"

Common word forms

elegiacs, elegiacal

Words from these letters

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