threnodial

adj

threnodial

adj

1

Pertaining or similar to a threnody.

"Perhaps I ought not to use the word 'trifle' in connection with a composition of a threnodial and dirge-like character," he continued deprecatingly.1887, Bret Harte, chapter 7, in The Crusade of the Excelsior:

Synonyms: elegiac, threnodic
Related terms: threnodist

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