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Elegiac Common

Elegiac has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

Adjective
1

resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

"an elegiac poem on a friend's death"

2

expressing sorrow often for something past

"an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

3

Of or relating to an elegy.

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Rhyming Words
iac eniac triac isiac iliac bisiac celiac variac guaiac essiac syriac neliac zodiac maniac heliac scoriac salmiac ischiac coeliac theriac
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