About The Word Lugubrious
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Lugubrious
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What's The Definition Of Lugubrious?
[adj] excessively mournful
Synonyms | Synonyms for Lugubrious: sorrowful Related Terms | Find terms related to Lugubrious: aggrieved | anguished | black | bleak | careworn | cheerless | depressant | depressing | dismal | dispiriting | doleful | dolorous | dour | dreary | dumb with grief | glum | griefful | grief-stricken | grieved | grievous | in grief | joyless | lamentable | morose | mournful | oppressive | plaintive | plangent | plunged in grief | rueful | saturnine | somber | sorrowed | sorrowful | sorrowing | sullen | tearful | woeful See Also | Lugubrious In Webster's Dictionary \Lu*gu"bri*ous\, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to
mourn; cf. Gr. ? sad, Skr. ruj to break.]
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly;
doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious
look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious
emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne.
-- {Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness}, n.
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