English edit

Etymology edit

elegiacal +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

elegiacally (comparative more elegiacally, superlative most elegiacally)

  1. In the manner of an elegy, or funeral poem
    • 2007 November 4, Claire Dederer, “The Inner Scholar”, in New York Times[1]:
      He was co-founder of Naropa's writing program, the elegiacally named Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, later that year.