Elegiac

Definition:

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

Compare elegiac with other words:

elegiac vs. ethereal

elegiac vs. lament

elegiac vs. mournful

elegiac vs. plaintive

elegiac vs. threnodic

elegiac vs. threnodial

elegiac vs. elegiacal

elegiac vs. pentameter

elegiac vs. hexameter

dactylic vs. elegiac

couplet vs. elegiac

elegiac vs. mourning

elegiac vs. sorrow

elegiac vs. elegist

elegiac vs. elegy