Definition of: elegiac

(el′ə·jī′ək, i·lē′jē·ak) adjective
1. Pertaining to elegies.
2. Of the nature of an elegy; sad; plaintive.
3. In ancient prosody, written in distichs consisting of hexameter and pentameter. Also el′e·gi′a·cal.
—noun
1. A poet who writes in the tone or in the meter of the elegy.
2. plural Verse composed in the elegiac spirit or form.