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Plaintive; melancholy
Answer for the clue "Plaintive; melancholy ", 7 letters:
elegiac
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The adjective elegiac has two possible meanings. First, it can refer to something of, relating to, or involving, an elegy or something that expresses similar mournfulness or sorrow. Second, it can refer more specifically to poetry composed in the form of ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ elegiac verse EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death. ▪ Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks ...
Usage examples of elegiac.
Three celebrated Elegiac poets--Tibullus, Propertius, and Ovid--also belong to the Augustan age.
Strachan, Kincardineshire, where a tombstone, inscribed with some elegiac verses, has been erected to his memory.