| Main Entry: | elegiac |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lamenting |
Synonyms: |
doleful, funereal, melancholy, mournful, sad, sorrowful, threnodial |
| Main Entry: | funereal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing |
Synonyms: |
black, bleak, dark, deathlike, dirgelike, disheartening, dismal, doleful, dreary, elegiac, gloomy, grave, grim, lamenting, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, oppressive, sad, sepulchral, serious, solemn, somber, woeful |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, joyful, lively, upbeat |
| Main Entry: | poetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | with rhythm and beauty; related to poetic composition |
Synonyms: |
anapestic, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, epodic, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, odic, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful |
Antonyms: |
prosaic |
| Main Entry: | poetical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poetic |
Synonyms: |
anapestic, dactylic, dramatic, elegiac, epic, epical, epodic, iambic, idyllic, imaginative, lyric, lyrical, melodious, metrical, odic, rhythmical, romantic, songlike, tuneful |