- elegiac⇄adj. 1. of or suitable for an elegy.
2. sad; mournful; melancholy.
Ex. elegiac grief.
3. written in elegiacs. - elegiac⇄elegiac, adjective, noun.
- elegiac⇄expr. elegiacs, a poem written in such verses.
Ex. The Heroides and Tristia of Ovid are elegiacs. - elegiac⇄noun a dactylic hexameter couplet in Greek and Latin verse, the second line having no unaccented syllables in the third and sixth feet.