Usually means: Mournfully reflecting on the past.
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  1. elegiacally: Merriam-Webster
  2. elegiacally: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elegiacally: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elegiacally: Vocabulary.com
  5. elegiacally: Wiktionary
  6. elegiacally: Dictionary.com
  7. elegiacally: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. elegiacally: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (elegiacally)

▸ adverb:  In the manner of an elegy, or funeral poem

Similar:
eulogically, eulogistically, poetically, mournfully, mourningly, poignantly, panegyrically, epitaphically, grievingly, lamentingly, more...

Opposite:
joyfully, cheerfully, exuberantly

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Similar:
eulogically, eulogistically, poetically, mournfully, mourningly, poignantly, panegyrically, epitaphically, grievingly, lamentingly, more...

Opposite:
joyfully, cheerfully, exuberantly



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