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Elegiac

//ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪək// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to an elegy.

    "the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter"

  2. 2
    Expressing sorrow or mourning.

    "Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?"

Adjective
  1. 1
    expressing sorrow often for something past wordnet
  2. 2
    resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

    "His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin elegīacus, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγειακός (elegeiakós).

Etymology 2

From Middle French élégiaque, from Latin elegīacus, from Ancient Greek ἐλεγειακός (elegeiakós).

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