Enter a clue or pattern or both:
The Clue
Mournful (7 letter answer)
The Answer
ELEGIAC
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Notes
The answer ELEGIAC is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 1000 puzzles.
Related Clues
Melancholy
Plaintive
Expressing sorrow
Plaintive; melancholy
Plaintive, as a poem
Plaintive verse
Like Shelley's "Adonais"
Like Berg's "Violin Concerto"
Like a Thomas Gray work
Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry
Definition
ELEGIAC as an adjective:
1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
2. expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"