Threnodial
Full definition of threnodial
Adjective
threnodial
- Pertaining or similar to a threnody.
- 1887, Bret Harte, The Crusade of the Excelsior, ch. 7,"Perhaps I ought not to use the word 'trifle' in connection with a composition of a threnodial and dirge-like character," he continued deprecatingly.