ele'giacally
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elegiac (ˌɛlɪˈdʒaɪək) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy |
| 2. | lamenting; mournful; plaintive |
| 3. | denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas |
| —n | |
| 4. | (often plural) an elegiac couplet or stanza |
| ele'giacally | |
| —adv | |
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Ele'giacally
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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