Elegiac

Quick meaning: Elegiac is an adjective meaning Of or relating to an elegy.

Meaning

Of or relating to an elegy.

More Meanings

1. Expressing sorrow or mourning.
2. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

Example Sentences

And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,

His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs

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

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

Word Forms

• elegaic
• elegiacs

Synonyms for elegiac

Depending on context, synonyms include sorrowful, mournful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sorrowful, distichs, elegiacal, elegiack, eulogious, eulogetic.

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