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Definition of Elegiac
1. Adjective. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy. "An elegiac poem on a friend's death"
Partainyms: Elegy
2. Adjective. Expressing sorrow often for something past. "An elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
Similar to: Sorrowful
Definition of Elegiac
1. a. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
2. n. Elegiac verse.
Definition of Elegiac
1. a type of verse [n -S]