Meaning Of The Word Elegiac

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Elegiac Meaning

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Elegiac Definition

What's The Definition Of Elegiac?

elegiac
adjective: Something that is elegiac expresses or shows sadness.

elegiac in American English
of or composed in dactylic-hexameter couplets, the second line (sometimes called a pentameter) having only an accented syllable in the third and sixth feet: the form was used for elegies and various other lyric poems
adjective: used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy
noun: an elegiac or distich verse

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