elegious

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adjective

Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.

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Meanings

adjectiveelegious (comparative more elegious, superlative most elegious)

comparative more elegious · superlative most elegious

  1. obsoleteMelancholy, 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: elegiac, forlorn, lamentful, sad

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveMelancholy, miserable, plaintive.

Similar
elegiacforlornlamentfulsad
Also see
sad

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

eulogise
Cite this entry
APA

elegious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elegious

MLA

“elegious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elegious. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “elegious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/elegious.

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