Elegiac /(?; 277)/

E·le·gi·ac

Elegiac

a.
  1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
    Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.
  2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

Elegiac

n.
  1. Elegiac verse.