elegiac
adjective /ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək/
/ˌelɪˈdʒaɪək/
(formal or literary)- expressing sad feelings, especially about the past or people who have died
- Her poetry has an elegiac quality.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French élégiaque, or via late Latin, from Greek elegeiakos, from elegeia, from elegos ‘mournful poem’.