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   elegiac

   /ˌɛlɪˈdʒʌɪək/

   adjective

   • 1. relating to or characteristic of an elegy: "haunting and elegiac poems"
   • ▪ wistfully mournful: "she watched repeat serials, fixed on their moody and elegiac characterization"

   plural

   • 1. verses in an elegiac metre.

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French élégiaque, or via late Latin, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia (see elegy).

   Derivatives

   • 1. elegiacally adverb

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