Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.

Roget 363: burried etc. v.; burial, funereal, funebrial^†; mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary^†; elegiac; necroscopic^†.   

Roget 597: poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic etc. n.; metrical; a catalectin^†; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic^†; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic^†; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic^†, Pindaric.    ... show more

Roget 839: lamenting etc. v.; in mourning, in sackcloth and ashes; sorrowing, sorrowful etc. (unhappy) 828; mournful, tearful; lachrymose; plaintive, plaintful^†; querulous, querimonious^†; in the melting mood; threnetic^†.    in tears, with tears in one's eyes; with moistened eyes, with watery eyes; bathed in tears, dissolved in tears; like Niobe all tears" [Hamlet]. elegiac, epicedial^†.    ... show more

Polish: elegijny

Expressing sorrow often for something past.

Polish: elegijny