elegiac

形容词 elegiac:

1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
2. expressing sorrow often for something past

1. Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
   她的诗有伤感的情调。

el.e.gi.ac

adj.（形容词）
Of, relating to, or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past:
挽歌的：属于，关于或涉及挽歌、哀悼或表达对不可挽回的事物的悲痛的：
例句：
an elegiac lament for youthful ideals.
对青年理想的哀叹

Of or composed in elegaic couplets.
挽歌体的：挽歌对句体的诗的，用挽歌对句体写的诗的

来源：
Late Latin elegoacus
后期拉丁语 elegoacus
from Greek elegeiakos
源自 希腊语 elegeiakos
from elegeia [elegy] * see elegy
源自 elegeia [挽歌] *参见 elegy

【引伸】
el.egi.ac
n.（名词）
el.egi.acal
adj.（形容词）
el.egi.acally
adv.（副词）