elegy

Noun

Meaning

A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lament dirge threnody requiem lamentation funeral hymn madrigal sonnet ballade song ode jingle epigram lay poem
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Antonyms

information style revel literature formal mild
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Hypernyms

poem verse form

Derivatives

Elegies

Anagrams

lyege

Examples

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. José Rizal

It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy. Oscar Levant

I will not give you an elegy - words to stir your hearts as our beloved Gaelic slowly fades away. And I will not be prescribing palliative care. Alex Salmond

Among them pert-faced Elegy draws near. Statius

To me, elegy suggests that there is hope, and in some respects you've moved past the loss and are able to deal with it and to write about it. Jacqueline Woodson

When I was from Cupid's passions free, my Muse was mute and wrote no elegy. Ovid

Close letter words and terms

elegist elegit elegize eleidin elektro-baglama Elem