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
  • The Substance’s conclusion is anything but elegiac, however.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025
  • But as Tanaka’s melodramatic and elegiac film shows us, beauty often comes from the most unexpected places.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2024
Definition of elegiac
Adjective
  • The Heat’s 36-point loss to the NBA’s fifth-worst team over the weekend marked their third-largest home defeat in the last two decades and kept them hovering around .500 as a melancholy cloud hangs over the franchise’s head.
    James Jackson, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • The melancholy song reaches a new high on both the Billboard Global 200 and the Billboard Global Excl.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of melancholy
Adjective
  • Though the sitdown with the media was to preview Tuesday's Champions League showdown against Borussia Dortmund, Courtois was asked about lamentable scenes last month which caused the Madrid derby to be halted before play resumed after a long pause.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • There was already a lot to like about Honda's compact, which eschews lamentable trends like an over-reliance on touchscreens for good old-fashioned physical controls.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of lamentable
Adjective
  • Somebody Somewhere is tiny: a gorgeous, introspective, intimate story about a woman with devastatingly mundane problems whose chief obstacle is her own aching sense of grief and dislocation.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2024
  • In this novel about the shape-shifting nature of love, Parsons captures Kit’s grief in aching and honest terms.
    Annabel Gutterman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of aching
Adjective
  • Landman Besides the sheer sorrowful swagger and script quality of Landman, timing has proved almost everything for the Billy Bob Thornton star vehicle from Taylor Sheridan.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Added to this inventory are a set of gilded organ pipes and stained glass panels adorned with sorrowful lilies.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Dec. 2024
Definition of sorrowful
Adjective
  • Carter’s casket will depart the U.S. Capitol at 9 a.m. and a funeral motorcade will travel to the Washington National Cathedral.
    Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • On this day, in an Assad-free Damascus, he is mourned loudly by hundreds in a funeral procession that starts at the hospital where he was identified and ends at his final resting place.
    Claire Harbage, NPR, 17 Dec. 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
  • That was far larger than the closest polls — or the senator’s increasingly plaintive late-campaign messages — had suggested.
    Saul Elbein, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Santa Cruz’s tiny agonies manage a delicate balance between stately, shimmering guitar lines and plaintive synthesizer accompaniment while Bazan sings with a gusto that bests his finest performances.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of plaintive
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