elegiacally
In sorrowful verse
In a manner expressing sorrow or mourning, especially for something lost or past.
The word derives from elegy, a poem of lamentation.
Someone speaking elegiacally reflects on what once was with wistful sadness: He wrote elegiacally about his vanished childhood, The documentary elegiacally chronicles the dying art form.
Passionate expression of grief
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- dirgeMournful commemorative music
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
requiem · threnody · lament · bereavement · condolence · mourning · weeping · sorrow
Sadly longing for something
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
- bygoneOf earlier times
halcyon · yesteryear · bittersweet · memories · retrospective · recollection · sentimental · homesick
Slow musical tempo
- lamentMournful expression of grief
- requiemMass for the deceased
- nocturneContemplative keyboard piece
- celloDeep-voiced bowed instrument
oboe · violin · aria · cantabile · pianissimo · barcarolle · largo · mournful
Metered poetic passage
- odeLaudatory verse form
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- meterDevice that measures usage
- cadenceRhythmic pulse or pattern
rhyme · lyrical · sonnet · couplet · imagery · diction · enjambment · alliteration
Inclined to deep thought
- meditativeInclined toward deep reflection
- pensiveQuietly, sadly thoughtful
- introspectiveExamining one's own mind
- ruminativeProne to prolonged reflection
thoughtful · philosophical · melancholic · brooding · wistful · musing · solemn · quiet
lamentation
Passionate expression of grief
keening · requiem · threnody · lament · bereavement · condolence · mourning · weeping · sorrow · anguish
wistful
Sadly longing for something
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- longingIntense, persistent desire
- reminiscenceRecalling past experiences
bygone · halcyon · yesteryear · bittersweet · memories · retrospective · recollection · sentimental · homesick · reverie
adagio
Slow musical tempo
cello · oboe · violin · aria · cantabile · pianissimo · barcarolle · largo · mournful · Chopin
verse
Metered poetic passage
cadence · rhyme · lyrical · sonnet · couplet · imagery · diction · enjambment · alliteration · assonance
contemplative
Inclined to deep thought
- meditativeInclined toward deep reflection
- pensiveQuietly, sadly thoughtful
- introspectiveExamining one's own mind
ruminative · thoughtful · philosophical · melancholic · brooding · wistful · musing · solemn · quiet · subdued
elegiacallyjubilantly
In a rejoicing manner
joyfully · triumphantly · exuberantly · exultantly · ecstatically
elegiacallycrudely
In unrefined manner
tastelessly · gaudily · garishly · vulgarly · coarsely
elegiacallyhopefully
With optimistic expectation
expectantly · optimistically · anticipatorily · futuristically · sanguinely