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单词 elegiac
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
el•e•gi•ac  (el′i jīək, -ak, i lējē ak′),USA pronunciation adj. Also, el′e•gia•cal. 
  1. Poetryused in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
  2. expressing sorrow or lamentation:elegiac strains.
  3. Poetry[Class. Pros.]noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.

n. 
  1. Poetryan elegiac or distich verse.
  2. Poetrya poem in such distichs or verses.
  • Greek elegeiakós. See elegy, -ac
  • Latin elegīacus
  • Middle French)
  • (1575–85

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
elegiac /ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək/ adj
  1. resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy
  2. lamenting; mournful; plaintive
  3. denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas
n
  1. (often plural) an elegiac couplet or stanza

ˌeleˈgiacally adv
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