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elegious

elegious adjective: melancholy, miserable, plaintive.

Adjective

elegious (comparative more elegious, superlative most elegious)

  1. (obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
    • If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5

Synonyms of elegious

Forms of elegious

comparativemore elegious
superlativemost elegious

Questions about elegious

What does elegious mean?
Elegious means melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
What part of speech is elegious?
Elegious is an adjective.

Words near elegious in the dictionary

  1. elegiast
  2. elegiasts
  3. elegies
  4. elegiographer
  5. elegiographers
  6. elegious
  7. elegise
  8. elegised
  9. elegises
  10. elegising
  11. elegist

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