Expressing sorrow or mourning.
Of or relating to an elegy.
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.