elegious
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
elegious (comparative more elegious, superlative most elegious)
- (obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
- 1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5:
- If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.
Synonyms[edit]
- elegiac, forlorn, lamentful; see Thesaurus:sad