elegiac: Meaning and Definition of

el•e•gi•ac

1. used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.
2. expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
3. noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.

1. an elegiac or distich verse.
2. a poem in such distichs or verses.