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ELEGIAC

• ELEGIAC (adjective)
The adjective ELEGIAC has 2 senses:

1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
2. expressing sorrow often for something past

Familiarity information: ELEGIAC used as an adjective is rare.

• ELEGIAC (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

an elegiac poem on a friend's death

Pertainym:

elegy (a mournful poem; a lament for the dead)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Expressing sorrow often for something past

Context example:

an elegiac lament for youthful ideals

Similar:

sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)

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(English proverb)
"Laziness is the mother of all bad habits."
(Albanian proverb)
"The monkey in his mother's eye is a gazelle."
(Arabic proverb)
"Bathe her and then look at her."
(Egyptian proverb)

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