Associations to the word «Elegiac»

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.
William Butler Yeats