Word Meaning

elegiac definition and meaning

a. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
a. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
n. Elegiac verse.

Crossword clues for elegiac

- Wistfully mournful