| Elegiac 1. (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. 2. (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. 3. (n.) Elegiac verse. Thesaurus Entries Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dirgelike, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, epic, heroic, idyllic, knell-like, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, threnodic |