dirgelike

adjective

Definition of dirgelikenext
as in elegiacal

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dirgelike
  1. elegiac
  2. melancholy
  3. lamentable
  4. aching
  5. sorrowful
  6. funeral
  7. doleful
  8. plaintive
Adjective
  • Unforgiven was the elegiac work of an aging icon looking back on a long and varied career; that was 1992.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The tone can be rapturous or elegiac, as confounding as the masterful final entries in Low’s own shapeshifting catalog.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 27 Sep. 2024
Definition of elegiac
Adjective
  • In 2020, Rateliff released a solo album, his third overall and his first since starting the Night Sweats, with a more melancholy sound that recalled his early-career work.
    Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Most notable within Jones’ theme is the use of vibraphone when set against his orchestra’s melancholy strings.
    A.D. Amorosi, Variety, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of melancholy
Adjective
  • But there’s also 6 Souls, a lamentable 2013 horror movie starring Julianne Moore, in which the hollers hold real witches and their powerful curses reach far beyond the hills.
    Sarah Jones, Vulture, 15 July 2024
  • Obama should support Modi’s efforts to push the Sri Lankan government on its lamentable human rights situation, guard against Islamic extremism in Bangladesh, and promote greater political stability in Nepal.
    Nicholas Burns, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2014
Definition of lamentable
Adjective
  • Vail’s spaghetti-Western instincts are ever present in 100 Cowboys, but beyond the uptempo pop-rock sound is an aching, earnest excavation of love gone wrong.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2024
  • This type of pain can be described as anything from sharp and throbbing to dull and aching.
    Cristina Mutchler, Health, 10 July 2024
Definition of aching
Adjective
  • An anthology of new works that reflect events, opinions and sentiments from a fleeting and fatalistic moment in time — one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.
    Austin Curtright, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
  • His samples are full of vibrating guitars, sorrowful organs, and cascading drums.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of sorrowful
Adjective
  • The deceased who are buried at the site would likely have been burnt on funeral pyres.
    Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The funeral banner features a typical mix of Lebanese faces, making up three generations of a Shiite Muslim family that lived for decades in this predominantly Christian area north of Beirut.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2024
Definition of funeral
Adjective
  • Self-contained in a suit and clad by ironic distance, the unnamed sort calls to mind all the doleful observers that have traipsed across the screen since il cinema went modern, highlighting a weakness of a film that could benefit from a touch more idiosyncrasy.
    Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
  • These scenes are very often fun, filthy, hot, and, frankly, a relief after so much doleful, droopy coupling.
    Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Definition of doleful
Adjective
  • As Paddington, Ben Whishaw’s slightly plaintive voice merges seamlessly with Pablo Grillo’s furry animation.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Coldplay, once skewered by critics for being too plaintive and self-pitying, was now broadcasting the opposite message: everything is magic.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of plaintive
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