threnodic

threnody +‎ -ic

threnodic (not comparable)

1. Pertaining or similar to a threnody.
   • 1964, Stanley Sadie, “Cheltenham Festival”, in The Musical Times, volume 105, number 1459, page 673:

     There is a definite poetic impulse here, too: possibly threnodic in character (the work is dedicated to the memory of her mother), but certainly with some elements of darkness and poignancy underlying it.

• elegiac
• threnodial

• threnodist

• chondrite