Lugubrious
[lʊ'guːbrɪəs] or [lə'gʊbrɪəs]
Definition
(a.) Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Typist: Sol
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Mournful, sorrowful, doleful, sad, gloomy, melancholy.
Typist: Sonia
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See LUDICROUS]
Editor: Timmy
Definition
adj. mournful: dismal.—adv. Lugū′briously.
Typist: Tito
Examples
- There was no scenery to render gay this lugubrious environment, but the black interior served as the common background for the performers, throwing all their actions into high relief. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He would have no RAISON D'ETRE if there were no lugubrious miseries in the world, as an undertaker would have no meaning if there were no funerals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A lugubrious sentiment of this sort was sure to obtain Mrs. Yorke's approbation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- How does that little old song go, which, under pretence of being cheerful, is by far the most lugubrious I ever heard in my life? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Typist: Tito