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Somber vs Elegiac - What's the difference?

somber | elegiac |

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) sombre

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * melancholy, unhappy, sad

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • References

    * *

    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 }}