elegiac

1. 1.

   resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy

   “an elegiac poem on a friend's death”
2. 2.

   expressing sorrow often for something past

   “an elegiac lament for youthful ideals”

   Similarsorrowful

Questions about elegiac

What does elegiac mean?

elegiac means "resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elegiac?

elegiac has 4 syllables: e-le-gi-ac. The stress falls on "le".

Is elegiac a common word?

elegiac is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.