elegiac
adjective
used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
elegiacally
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a word derived from
elegiac.
Example Sentences
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Akron’s own Chrissy Hynde beautifully and elegiacally captures the feelings of disillusionment that arise when you go home and — no thanks to industrialization and overdevelopment — don’t recognize your old stomping ground.
From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2023
Finally, and elegiacally, Professor of English Michael Theune commented to the Chicago Tribune, "It is a bad day. The faculty's control of the curriculum has been taken away."
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2020
Ali and Nino ends elegiacally, lamenting the dying beauty of Eastern tradition and predicting that Baku would inexorably Europeanize.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2017
For Federer, the last act is elegiacally ongoing.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2016
She had suffered before—yes, but lucidly, reflectively, elegiacally: now she was suffering as a hurt animal must, blindly, furiously, with the single fierce animal longing that the awful pain should stop...
From The Reef by Edith Wharton
