Somber vs Elegiac - What's the difference?
somber | elegiac |
Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
* {{quote-book
, year=2002
, author=Dirk Wittenborn
, title=Fierce People
, passage=My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus .}}
Dark, lacking color or brightness.
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Of, or relating to an elegy.
Expressing sorrow or mourning.
* Elizabeth Browning
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
* {{quote-book, 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, page=385
, passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}
As adjectives the difference between somber and elegiac
is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while elegiac is of, or relating to an elegy.As a verb somber
is alternative form of lang=en.As a noun elegiac is
a poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.somber
English
Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English) sombreAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* melancholy, unhappy, sadReferences
Anagrams
* ----elegiac
English
(wikipedia elegiac)Adjective
(en adjective)- the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
- Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.
Quotations
* 1808 , , Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field , "Canto the Third: Introduction": *: Hast thou no elegiac verse *: For Brunswick's venerable hearse?Noun
(en noun)citation