elegiac

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for elegiac

elegiac 🔊

elegiac : ඛේදාත්මක

elegiac : දුක්ඛදායක

elegiac definition

Adjective.

  1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
  2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

Noun. Elegiac verse.