Word Meaning

Meaning of elegiac

- Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
- Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
- Elegiac verse.

Crossword clue for elegiac

- Wistfully mournful