k, -ak, i-lee-jee-ak]
| 1. | used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. |
| 2. | expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains. |
| 3. | Classical Prosody. noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot. |
| 4. | an elegiac or distich verse. |
| 5. | a poem in such distichs or verses. |