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ALL meanings of elegiac

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  • adjective elegiac mournful, like an elegy 1
  • noun elegiac (especially of a work of art) having a mournful quality. 1
  • adjective elegiac Something that is elegiac expresses or shows sadness. 0
  • adjective elegiac resembling, characteristic of, relating to, or appropriate to an elegy 0
  • adjective elegiac lamenting; mournful; plaintive 0
  • adjective elegiac denoting or written in elegiac couplets or elegiac stanzas 0
  • noun elegiac an elegiac couplet or stanza 0
  • adjective elegiac of or composed in dactylic-hexameter couplets, the second line (sometimes called a pentameter) having only an accented syllable in the third and sixth feet: the form was used for elegies and various other lyric poems 0
  • adjective elegiac of, like, or fit for an elegy 0
  • adjective elegiac sad; mournful; plaintive 0
  • noun elegiac an elegiac couplet 0
  • noun elegiac a series of such couplets; poem or poems written in such couplets 0
  • noun elegiac A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. 0
  • adjective elegiac Of, or relating to an elegy. 0
  • adjective elegiac Expressing sorrow or mourning. 0
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