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Showing words for ELEGIAC using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Elegiac

elegiac

6 Letter Words for Elegiac

cigale, gaelic

5 Letter Words for Elegiac

agile, aglee, algic, alice, ceile, eagle, elaic, galee, glace, ileac, liege

4 Letter Words for Elegiac

acle, agee, aiel, aile, alce, alec, alee, cage, ceil, cele, ciel, clag, clee, cleg, eale, egal, eila, elec, gael, gail, gale, gali, geal, geic, gila, gile, glee, glei, glia, ilea, lace, laic, lege, lice, lige

3 Letter Words for Elegiac

ace, age, ail, alc, ale, alg, cag, cai, cal, cee, cel, cia, cie, cig, cli, ecg, eec, eeg, eel, ela, eli, gal, gee, gel, gie, ice, ile, lac, lag, lai, lca, lea, lee, leg, lei, lie, lig

Definitions for Elegiac

[1] used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
[2] expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
[3] Classical Prosody . noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.
[4] an elegiac or distich verse.
[5] a poem in such distichs or verses.
[6] resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy
[7] lamenting; mournful; plaintive
[8] denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas
[9] (often plural) an elegiac couplet or stanza

Words related to Elegiac

funereal, melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, sad, doleful

Words nearby Elegiac

eledoisin, eleemosynary, elegance, elegancy, elegant, elegiac, elegiac couplet, elegiac pentameter, elegiac stanza, elegist, elegit

Origin of Elegiac

1575–85; (< Middle French ) < Latin elegīacus < Greek elegeiakós. See elegy, -ac

Other words from Elegiac

el·e·gi·a·cal·ly , adverb

Synonyms for Elegiac

funereal, melancholy, mournful, sad, sorrowful, doleful, threnodial