elegiacal

The word “elegiacal” has 5 syllables: e-le-gi-a-cal

It's pronounced as /ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪəkəl/


What is synonym and antonym for elegiacal?

In the thesaurus, “elegiacal” has 96 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for elegiacal along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for elegiacal

  • Cimmerian
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • colorless
  • comfortless
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dejected
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • desperate
  • despondent
  • dim
  • dire
  • dirge
  • discomfiting
  • disconsolate
  • discouraging
  • disheartening
  • dismal
  • dismaying
  • dispiriting
  • distressful
  • distressing
  • dour
  • down
  • drab
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich
  • droopy
  • dull
  • elegy
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grey
  • grim
  • hangdog
  • hopeless
  • inconsolable
  • lament
  • lamentable
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • louring
  • loury
  • low
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • menacing
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • monody
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • negative
  • oppressive
  • pessimistic
  • plaintive
  • plutonian
  • requiem
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • sepulchral
  • solemn
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • taps
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • threatening
  • threnody
  • unhappy
  • upsetting
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • wretched

Antonyms for elegiacal

  • blithe
  • blithesome
  • bright
  • buoyant
  • cheerful
  • cheering
  • cheery
  • comforting
  • cordial
  • encomium
  • encouraging
  • eulogy
  • festive
  • friendly
  • gay
  • heartwarming
  • hopeful
  • jocund
  • jolly
  • joyful
  • joyous
  • lighthearted
  • lightsome
  • merry
  • mirthful
  • optimistic
  • paean
  • panegyric
  • sunshiny

Example Sentences

  • The music had an elegiacal quality that made the audience reflect on lost times.
  • His speech was filled with an elegiacal tone, as he reminisced about the past.
  • The elegiacal nature of the novel made readers feel a deep sense of sorrow.
  • Her elegiacal painting beautifully captured the sorrow of the fading seasons.
  • The film's elegiacal atmosphere made it feel both haunting and nostalgic.

On this page you'll find 125 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to elegiacal, such as: Cimmerian, black, bleak, blithe, blithesome, blue, bright.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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sad

  • abhorrent
  • abominable
  • affecting
  • aggrieved
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • bad
  • beastly
  • bereaved
  • bitter
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • brokenhearted
  • calamitous
  • cast down
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • contemptible
  • crestfallen
  • dark
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  • dejected
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  • desolate
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  • dismal
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  • disquieting
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  • distressed
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  • disturbing
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down in dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grave
  • gray
  • grey
  • grief-stricken
  • grieved
  • grieving
  • grievous
  • hangdog
  • hapless
  • hateful
  • heart-rending
  • heartbreaking
  • heartbroken
  • heartrending
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavy-hearted
  • heavyhearted
  • hopeless
  • hurting
  • ignominious
  • in doldrums
  • in grief
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  • inadequate
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  • infamous
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  • joyless
  • lachrymose
  • lame
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  • languishing
  • lousy
  • low
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  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • meritless
  • misbegotten
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  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • moving
  • murky
  • notorious
  • odious
  • oppressive
  • out of sorts
  • pathetic
  • pensive
  • perturbing
  • pessimistic
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • plaintive
  • poignant
  • poor
  • regretful
  • regrettable
  • rueful
  • saddened
  • saddening
  • saturnine
  • scandalous
  • second-class
  • serious
  • shabby
  • shameful
  • shocking
  • shoddy
  • sick at heart
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sordid
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • stinking
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • tear-jerking
  • tearful
  • teary
  • touching
  • tragic
  • troubled
  • uneasy
  • unfortunate
  • unhappy
  • unquiet
  • unsatisfactory
  • unsavory
  • unworthy
  • upset
  • upsetting
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worried
  • worthless
  • wretched

saddened

  • afflicted
  • aggrieved
  • agitated
  • agonized
  • ailed
  • all torn up
  • anguished
  • antsy
  • anxious
  • bad
  • basket case
  • black
  • bleak
  • blue
  • bothered
  • brokenhearted
  • bugged
  • bummed out
  • bundle of nerves
  • burdened
  • cast down
  • chapfallen
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • concerned
  • crestfallen
  • cut up
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dashed
  • daunted
  • dejected
  • demoralized
  • depressed
  • depressing
  • desolate
  • despairing
  • despondent
  • destroyed
  • disappointed
  • discombobulated
  • discomforted
  • discomposed
  • disconsolate
  • discouraged
  • disheartened
  • dismal
  • dismayed
  • dispirited
  • disquieted
  • distracted
  • distrait
  • distraught
  • distressed
  • disturbed
  • doleful
  • dolorous
  • down
  • down and out
  • down in the dumps
  • down in the mouth
  • downbeat
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dragged
  • drear
  • dreary
  • droopy
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • exercised
  • fidgety
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • got down
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieved
  • grieving
  • grim
  • hangdog
  • harassed
  • harmed
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • heavy-hearted
  • heavyhearted
  • hopeless
  • hurt
  • hurting
  • hyper
  • in a blue funk
  • in a stew
  • in a tizzy
  • in blue funk
  • in pain
  • in the dumps
  • inconsolable
  • injured
  • jittery
  • joyless
  • jumpy
  • lachrymose
  • let-down
  • long-faced
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • melancholic
  • melancholy
  • miffed
  • mirthless
  • miserable
  • moody
  • moony
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murky
  • not happy
  • oppressed
  • pained
  • peeved
  • pensive
  • persecuted
  • perturbed
  • pitiful
  • plaintive
  • regretful
  • ripped
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saddening
  • saturnine
  • shaky
  • shook
  • shook-up
  • shot down
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • spooked
  • strung-out
  • suicidal
  • sullen
  • sunk
  • tearful
  • teary
  • tormented
  • torn-up
  • tortured
  • trite
  • troubled
  • unconsolable
  • undid
  • uneasy
  • unglued
  • unhappy
  • unhinged
  • unnerved
  • unquiet
  • unsettled
  • up the wall
  • upset
  • uptight
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • weighed down
  • wet blanket
  • wired
  • wistful
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worried
  • wrecked
  • wretched
  • wronged

wailing

  • aching
  • agonized
  • agonizing
  • anguished
  • anguishing
  • bawl
  • bawling
  • baying
  • beefing
  • bellyaching
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitching
  • bitter
  • black
  • bleak
  • bleating
  • bleeding
  • blubber
  • blubbering
  • brokenhearted
  • careworn
  • carping
  • caterwauling
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • cheerless
  • comfortless
  • complaining
  • crabbing
  • crestfallen
  • croaking
  • crying
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dejected
  • deploring
  • depressed
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • dirgelike
  • disconsolate
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • dolesome
  • dolorous
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreary
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • forlorn
  • fretting
  • funeral
  • funereal
  • fussing
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • griping
  • grizzling
  • groaning
  • grouching
  • grousing
  • growling
  • grumbling
  • grumping
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • hollering
  • howl
  • howling
  • hurting
  • inconsolable
  • inveighing
  • joyless
  • keening
  • kicking
  • kicking up a fuss
  • kicking up a stink
  • kvetching
  • lament
  • lamentable
  • lamentation
  • lamenting
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • maundering
  • melancholy
  • miserable
  • moaning
  • moody
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • mourning
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • nagging
  • pathetic
  • pessimistic
  • piteous
  • plaintive
  • plangent
  • protesting
  • quibbling
  • regretful
  • repining
  • rueful
  • ruing
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • screaming
  • screeching
  • shedding tears
  • shrieking
  • shrilling
  • sniffing
  • snivel
  • sniveling
  • snivelling
  • sob
  • sobbing
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sorrowing
  • sorry
  • squalling
  • squawking
  • squealing
  • stewing
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • tear
  • tearful
  • tears
  • the blues
  • triste
  • ululating
  • unhappy
  • weep
  • weeping
  • whimpering
  • whingeing
  • whinging
  • whining
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worrying
  • wretched
  • yammering
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yelling
  • yelping
  • yowl
  • yowling

yammering

  • aching
  • agonized
  • anguished
  • babble
  • bawl
  • bawling
  • beefing
  • bellyaching
  • bemoaning
  • bewailing
  • bitching
  • bitter
  • blab
  • black
  • bleak
  • bleating
  • bleeding
  • bloviation
  • blubbering
  • bluster
  • bombast
  • brag
  • braggadocio
  • brokenhearted
  • bull
  • careworn
  • carping
  • caterwauling
  • caviling
  • cavilling
  • chatter
  • cheerless
  • cockalorum
  • comfortless
  • complaining
  • crabbing
  • crestfallen
  • croaking
  • cry
  • crying
  • dark
  • darkening
  • dejected
  • deploring
  • depressed
  • desolate
  • despondent
  • dirgelike
  • disconsolate
  • dismal
  • dispirited
  • doleful
  • dolesome
  • dolorous
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • dreary
  • drivel
  • egotism
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • fanfaronade
  • forlorn
  • fretting
  • funeral
  • funereal
  • fussing
  • gabble
  • gas
  • gasconade
  • gibber
  • gibberish
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • grandiloquence
  • gray
  • grey
  • grieving
  • griping
  • grizzling
  • groan
  • groaning
  • grouching
  • grousing
  • growling
  • grumbling
  • grumping
  • heartbroken
  • heartsick
  • heartsore
  • hollering
  • hot air
  • howl
  • howling
  • inconsolable
  • inveighing
  • jabber
  • jawing
  • joyless
  • keen
  • keening
  • kicking
  • kicking up a fuss
  • kicking up a stink
  • kvetching
  • lament
  • lamentable
  • lamentation
  • lamenting
  • low
  • low-spirited
  • lugubrious
  • magniloquence
  • maundering
  • melancholy
  • miserable
  • moan
  • moaning
  • moody
  • morbid
  • morose
  • mournful
  • murmuring
  • muttering
  • nagging
  • oratory
  • pathetic
  • patter
  • pessimistic
  • piteous
  • plaint
  • plaintive
  • plangent
  • pomposity
  • prating
  • prattle
  • protesting
  • quibbling
  • rant
  • regretful
  • repining
  • rhapsody
  • rhetoric
  • rhodomontade
  • rodomontade
  • rueful
  • sad
  • saturnine
  • screaming
  • self-conceit
  • self-importance
  • shriek
  • sniveling
  • sobbing
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sorrowful
  • sorry
  • squall
  • squawking
  • squealing
  • stewing
  • suffering
  • sullen
  • swagger
  • tearful
  • triste
  • turgidity
  • unhappy
  • vaunt
  • verbosity
  • wail
  • wailing
  • weeping
  • whimper
  • whimpering
  • whine
  • whingeing
  • whinging
  • whining
  • wind
  • windiness
  • woebegone
  • woeful
  • worrying
  • wretched
  • yauping
  • yawping
  • yelp
  • yowl
  • yowling

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