Definition of elegiac Elegiac
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We found 9 definitions of elegiac from 4 different sources.
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What does elegiac mean?
WordNet
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| elegiac - expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals" | ||
| elegiac - resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death" |
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- elegiac (a.)
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. - elegiac (a.)
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. - elegiac (n.)
Elegiac verse.
Part of speech
🔤- elegiac, noun, singular of elegiacs.
