meaning of elegiac
1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
3. Elegiac verse.
4. expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful
">ideals"
Related Words
elegiac | elegiac stanza | elegiacal |
