Associations to the word «Elegiac»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
ELEGIAC, adjective. Of, or relating to an elegy.
ELEGIAC, adjective. Expressing sorrow or mourning.
ELEGIAC, noun. A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
Dictionary definition
ELEGIAC, adjective. Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death".
ELEGIAC, adjective. Expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.