elegiac
adjective
1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
- an elegiac poem on a friend's death
2. expressing sorrow often for something past
- an elegiac lament for youthful ideals
Similar word(s): sorrowful
Sentences with elegiac as an adjective:
- the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
noun
1. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter