adj
Meaning 1
Relating to a threne
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dirgeful, lamentful, threnetical
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
threnetic
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/θɹəˈnɛtɪk/
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rhymes with -ɛtɪk
adj
Meaning 2
sorrowful; mournful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: miserable, threnetical, unhappy, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Ancient Greek θρηνητικός (thrēnētikós, “inclined to lament, querulous”). By surface analysis, threne + -etic.