Elegiac

[,elɪ'dʒaɪək]

(adj.) expressing sorrow often for something past; 'an elegiac lament for youthful ideals' .

(adj.) resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; 'an elegiac poem on a friend's death' .

Inputed by Alisa--From WordNet

(a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

(a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

(n.) Elegiac verse.

Typist: Miguel

a. Mournful, plaintive, sorrowful, dirge-like.

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