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elegiac

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elegiac
adjective
a movingly elegiac piece for small orchestra:
mournful, melancholic, melancholy, plaintive, sorrowful, sad, lamenting, doleful;
funereal, dirge-like;
touching, moving, poignant;
literary dolorous;
rare threnodic, threnodial.
▷antonyms cheerful.