Crossword-Solution: ELEGIAC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elegiac | a. | Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. |
| Elegiac | a. | Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. |
| Elegiac | n. | Elegiac verse. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “ELEGIAC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like Shelley's "Adonais" | 1 answer |
| resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy | 1 answer |
| Wistfully mournful | 1 answer |
| Plaintive; melancholy | 1 answer |
| Plaintive, as a poem | 1 answer |
| Plaintive verse | 1 answer |
| Mournful, as poetry | 1 answer |
| Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry | 1 answer |
| Like funeral dirges | 1 answer |
| Like a mournful poem | 1 answer |
| Like a Thomas Gray work | 1 answer |
| Like Thomas Gray's finest work. | 1 answer |
| Like Berg's "Violin Concerto" | 1 answer |
| Expressive of sorrow | 1 answer |
| Expressing sorrow | 4 answers |
| stanza | 7 answers |
| COSTAIN, THOMAS WORK | 10 answers |
| BERG, ALBAN WORK | 10 answers |
| plaintive | 28 answers |
| funereal | 50 answers |
| Sadden | 56 answers |
| Mournful | 63 answers |
| sorrowful | 76 answers |
| Melancholy | 87 answers |
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Sentences with ELEGIAC (5)
Symson also poured forth his elegiac strains upon the fate of the widowed bridegroom, on which subject, after a long and querulous effusion, the poet arrives at the sound conclusion, that if Baldoon had walked on foot, which it seems was his general custom, he would have escaped perishing by a fall from horseback.
The Spartans, though an unpoetical race, were nevertheless lovers of poetry; they had been stirred by the Elegiac strains of Tyrtaeus, they had crowded around Hippias to hear his recitals of Homer; but in this they resembled the citizens of the timocratic rather than of the ideal State.
Come, let us be men!” “O warm spicy land of my birth,” sang the Canary bird; “I will sing of thy dark-green bowers, of the calm bays where the pendent boughs kiss the surface of the water; I will sing of the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters where the cactus grows in wanton luxuriance.” “Spare us your elegiac tones,” said the Parrot giggling.
False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology 'the greatest of the Gods' (Rep.) is not exempt from evil imputations.
When I first arrived, I went to hear an old Academician who taught five hundred youths that Corneille was a haughty and powerful genius; Racine, elegiac and graceful; Moliere, inimitable; Voltaire, supremely witty; Bossuet and Pascal, incomparable in argument.
Quotes with ELEGIAC (3)
To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.
My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 24 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).