- used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
- expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
- noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.
- an elegiac or distich verse.
- a poem in such distichs or verses.
- resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy
- lamenting; mournful; plaintive
- denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas
- an elegiac couplet or stanza
