lugubrious
- mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
Origin of lugubrious
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mournful, sorrowful, bleak, gloomy, pensive, sad, depressing, dismal, doleful, dour, funeral, morose, woebegone, wofulExamples from the Web for lugubrious
Contemporary Examples of lugubrious
She is likely to shoehorn her pain into lugubrious scenarios that are perfect for country-music videos.
Death is not a lugubrious occasion here, but more often a celebration of a life.
Historical Examples of lugubrious
Miette, after a woman's fashion, was partial to lugubrious subjects.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
But Aristide felt some doubts on the point; he had suspicions of some lugubrious farce.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
He was too downcast even to sing one of his lugubrious hymns or to whistle.
ShavingsJoseph C. Lincoln
"It's darker in the grave," observed Captain Perez with lugubrious philosophy.
Cap'n EriJoseph Crosby Lincoln
Crane stared at the deceptive bag in the most lugubrious astonishment.
The Young MinerHoratio Alger, Jr.
lugubrious
- excessively mournful; doleful
Word Origin for lugubrious
Word Origin and History for lugubrious
c.1600, from Latin lugubris "mournful, pertaining to mourning," from lugere "to mourn," from PIE root *leug- "to break; to cause pain" (cf. Greek lygros "mournful, sad," Sanskrit rujati "breaks, torments," Lettish lauzit "to break the heart"). Related: Lugubriously; lugubriousness.