| 单词 | elegiac |
| 释义 | elegiac (once / 8647 pages) adj 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." The adjective elegiac is useful when you're talking about music, a movie, a book, or another work of art that has a sorrowful tone. Sometimes elegiac specifically refers to something or someone that's gone: a person who's died, or a time in the past, especially if you feel a sense of longing for it. You can speak in an elegiac way, or sing an elegiac tune. The word comes from the Greek elegos, "poem or song of lament." WORD FAMILYelegiac: elegiacally+/elegise: elegising/elegist: elegists/elegize: elegized, elegizes/elegy: elegiac, elegies, elegise, elegist, elegize USAGE EXAMPLESA first book often ends childhood: Prikryl’s gorgeous, elegiac work borrows from folklore its bright aesthetic and swift, severe logic of causation. The New Yorker(Dec 19, 2016) But the late, 22-year-old Cash Askew’s band Them Are Us Too is so gorgeous and elegiac that it’s almost too painful to listen too now. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) The men fleeing our helicopter were transformed by his camera, their escape now framed as an elegiac narrative: solitary figures traversing an apocalyptic topography. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) 1adj resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy an elegiac poem on a friend's death 2adj expressing sorrow often for something past an elegiac lament for youthful ideals Syn sorrowful experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss |
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