Usually means: Expressing sorrow or lamentation poetically.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word elegiac:

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  1. elegiac: Merriam-Webster
  2. elegiac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elegiac: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elegiac: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elegiac: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elegiac, elegiac: Wordnik
  7. elegiac: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. elegiac: Wiktionary
  9. elegiac: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elegiac: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elegiac: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Elegiac, elegiac: Dictionary.com
  13. Elegiac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Elegiac: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. elegiac: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. elegiac: Rhymezone
  17. Elegiac: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. elegiac: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. elegiac: FreeDictionary.org
  20. elegiac: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. elegiac: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. elegiac: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ELEGIAC: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. elegiac: Encyclopedia

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  1. elegiac: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See elegiacally as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of or relating to an elegy.
adjective:  Expressing sorrow or mourning.
noun:  A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

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