What is the meaning of elegiac?

adjective

  • Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy.
    • usage: "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
  • Expressing sorrow often for something past.
    • usage: "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
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