Relating to, characteristic of, or resembling a ballad or the ballade poetic form.
From 'ballad' or 'ballade' plus the suffix '-ic' (meaning 'relating to' or 'of the nature of'). The '-ic' suffix comes from Latin and Greek.
Not many English words get the '-ic' treatment from ballad forms, making 'balladic' a rare adjective that scholars use to describe that narrative, repetitive quality distinctive to ballad literature.
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