If there's one song on your playlist that always brings tears to your eyes, maybe it's because it has an elegiac quality. Elegiac means "mournful or sad."
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation;
Adjective S.
expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
Adjective
resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend''s death"
a.
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive;
expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
a.
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or
couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
n.
Elegiac verse.
Elegiac
Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.2.
Elegiac
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation;
Elegiac verse.
Usage Examples
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.
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