Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals" resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death
Something that is elegiac expresses or shows sadness. The music has a dreamy, elegiac quality. showing that you feel sad about someone who has died or something that no longer exists