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| Main Entry: |
elegiac
 [el-i-jahy-uhk, -ak, ih-lee-jee-ak] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lamenting |
| Synonyms: | doleful, funereal, melancholy, mournful, sad, sorrowful, threnodial |
| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
| Synonyms: | anapestic, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, epodic, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, odic, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful |
| Antonyms: | prosaic |
| Main Entry: | poetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poetic |
| Synonyms: | anapestic, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, epodic, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, odic, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful |
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Example Sentences
- On the other hand, this elegiac view leaves out all the good things that go along with baseball.
- Elegiac fiction about the moral treachery of memory.
- There is an elegiac note in the final point of my list.
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