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Sentimental vs Elegiac - What's the difference?

sentimental | elegiac |

As adjectives the difference between sentimental and elegiac

is that sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion while elegiac is of, or relating to an elegy.

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.

sentimental

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
  • derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
  • romantic

    • Derived terms

    * sentimentalism * sentimentality * sentimentally

    Quotations

    * 1885 : , *: Are you in sentimental mood? *: I'll sigh with you. * 1944 : , *: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey, *: Gonna set my heart at ease. *: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey, *: to renew old memories.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    elegiac

    English

    (wikipedia elegiac)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to an elegy.
    • the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
  • Expressing sorrow or mourning.
  • * Elizabeth Browning
    • 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)
  • 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 citation
    • , passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}