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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy;
- Example: "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"

2. expressing sorrow often for something past;
- Example: "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n. Elegiac verse. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

elegiac adj 1: resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death" 2: expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "elegiac": 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