Definition for Elegy:

• A poem or song expressive of sorrow or lamentation; a dirge; a poem pervaded by a tone of pensive sadness.

Synonyms for Elegy:

• n.

  •
  • epic,
  • song,
  • cycle,
  • ballad.
  •communication (noun)
  • elegy.
  •dirge (noun)
  • Monodies,
  • knell,
  • jeremiad,
  • funeral song,
  • keens,
  • monody,
  • death song,
  • threnody,
  • coronach.
  •epitaph (noun)
  • requiescat pace,
  • hic jacets.
  •requiem (noun)
  • religious song,
  • Sermons,
  • funeral hymn,
  • canticle,
  • memorial service,
  • Canticles.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • verse,
  • limerick,
  • rime,
  • psalm,
  • nursery rhyme,
  • sonnet,
  • poem,
  • blank verse,
  • haiku,
  • epigram,
  • swan song,
  • free verse,
  • ditty,
  • doggerel,
  • ode.
  •
  • lyric.
  •
  • rhyme.
  •
  • lay.

Antonyms for Elegy:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    paean, panegyric, eulogy, encomium.

Elegy Sentence Examples:

• Near by dwelt his old teacher, Doctor Gill, and Doctor Diodati, the father of his dearest friend, whose recent death he mourned in a touching elegy written in Latin.

• But the solitary watcher has unconsciously wandered forward till he finds himself standing close to the spot where Matthieson sung his elegy.

Homophones for Elegy:

• else, eyeless, elijah, Elias Howe, ellas, elegize, elaeis, ELISA, eellike, elsass, eolic, elegiac, eyelash, eulogize, elk, eulogise, eulogy, elegise, El Giza, eyelike.

Hyponym for Elegy:

• n.

  • communication
    verse form, poem.