DIRGELIKE Synonyms: 120 Similar and Opposite Words

dirgelike

adjective

as in elegiac

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Adjective

Harpman was writing in a different era, but the elegiac loneliness of her fiction anticipates our own solitary and screen-bound present.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026
The novel thus proceeds in two registers, at once mysterious and elegiac.

— Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Definition of elegiac

Adjective

On the page, Hig’s first-person descriptions of his everyday adventures, and of the waning natural world around him, had an honest, melancholy soul to them.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
There’s a gravity, even a melancholy to her Mary Stone, which drew on Fabares’ ability to project a genuine inner life into the least promising scenarios.

— Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of melancholy

Adjective

The diminishing role of the federal government in addressing this crisis is lamentable.

— Monitor Reader, Christian Science Monitor, 28 July 2026
Still furious at her mother, Natalie tentatively chooses to believe Cady but takes a gun along just in case, which turns out to be another lamentable decision.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Definition of lamentable

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The homestretch of the drama, however, takes the story in a chilling direction, packing an aching quantity of feeling into a single glance at a security camera as someone climbs into a car and leaves the compound, never to be heard from again.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2026
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (1997) Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain is an aching, tender slow burn shaped by absence.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026

Definition of aching

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All four stars ably play the stoic and sorrowful notes required of them, without finding many secondary or contrasting ones in their dialogue.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026
The temperature is more than 110 degrees in August but many Iraqi and Iranian pilgrims walk for hundreds of miles to mark the sorrowful event.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of sorrowful

Adjective

Langley’s voice, which is emotive but steady, seems unusually well suited to this sort of doleful yearning.

— Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
Measles is the canary in the coal mine for vaccination and public health, and at this moment, the canary is singing a doleful tune.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026

Definition of doleful

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