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