Word Meaning

Meaning of "elegiac" and the crossword clue

- Wistfully mournful
- 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.