adj.
- Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past: an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
- Of or composed in elegiac couplets.
[Late Latin elegīacus, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia, elegy. See elegy.]
elegiac el'e·gi'ac n.elegiacal el'e·gi'a·cal adj.
elegiacally el'e·gi'a·cal·ly adv.
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