elegious

English

Adjective

elegious (comparative more elegious, superlative most elegious)

1. (obsolete) Melancholy, miserable, plaintive.
   • 1634, Francis Quarles, “Canticles v. 8”, in Emblems, Divine and Moral, book 5:

     If your elegious breath should hap to rouze / A happy tear, close harb'ring in his eye.

Synonyms

• elegiac, forlorn, lamentful; see Thesaurus:sad

Anagrams

• eulogies, eulogise