Thesaurus: elegiac

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1. a. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
2. a. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
3. n. Elegiac verse.
4. adj. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
5. adj. expressing sorrow often for something past
6. 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. Mrs. Browning. 2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. Elegiac verse.
7. j:100 a. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy s. expressing sorrow often for something past