<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.</li><li>Expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.</li><li>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.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An elegiac or distich verse.</li><li>A poem in such distichs or verses.</li></ul>