'Elegiac' definitions:
Definition of 'elegiac'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
adjective
Expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
Definition of 'Elegiac'
From: GCIDE
- Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\ (?; 277), a. [L. elegiacus, Gr. ?: cf. F. ['e]l['e]giaque. See Elegy.]
- 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. [1913 Webster]
- Elegiac griefs, and songs of love. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Elegiac'
From: GCIDE
- Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'elegiac'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Alcaic,
- Anacreontic,
- bardic,
- bucolic,
- Castalian,
- didactic,
- dirgelike,
- dithyrambic,
- dramatic,
- eclogic,
- epic,
- heroic,
- Homeric,
- Hudibrastic,
- idyllic,
- knell-like,
- mock-heroic,
- narrative,
- pastoral,
- Pierian,
- Pindaric,
- poetic,
- poetico-mystical,
- poetico-mythological,
- poetico-philosophic,
- poetlike,
- rhapsodic,
- runic,
- sapphic,
- skaldic,
- Theocritean,
- threnodic