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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 ele·gi·ac /ˌɛləˈʤaɪək, ˌæk ||ɪˈliʤiˌæk/
 哀歌,輓歌(a.)哀歌體的,輓歌的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 E·le·gi·ac a.
 1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
    Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.   --Mrs. Browning.
 2. Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 E·le·gi·ac n. Elegiac verse.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 elegiac
      adj 1: resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy;
             "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
      2: expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac
         lament for youthful ideals"