Elegiac

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.    --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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     2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or
        couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and
        pentameter.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Elegiac \E*le"gi*ac\, n.
     Elegiac verse.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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