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- Dictionarylugubrious/lʊˈɡ(j)uːbrɪəs/
adjective
- 1. looking or sounding sad and dismal: "his face looked even more lugubrious than usual"
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The meaning of LUGUBRIOUS is mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful. How to use lugubrious in a sentence. Lugubrious Has Latin Roots.
Nov 6, 2012 · adjective. literary uk / luːˈɡuː.bri.əs / us / luːˈɡuː.bri.əs / Add to word list. sad and serious: a lugubrious face. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom. dismayed. displeased. dissatisfied. distraught. distressed.
If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather than lively or cheerful.
adjective. literary us / luːˈɡuː.bri.əs / uk / luːˈɡuː.bri.əs / Add to word list. sad and serious: a lugubrious face. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom. dismayed. displeased. dissatisfied. distraught. distressed.
Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be called lugubrious. Lugubrious comes from the Latin verb lūgēre , "to mourn." You can also listen to the sound of the word: lugubrious sounds slow, heavy, and sad.
If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather than lively or cheerful. [literary] ...a tall, thin man with a long and lugubrious face. He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.
1. lugubrious - excessively mournful. sorrowful - experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss; "sorrowful widows"; "a sorrowful tale of death and despair"; "sorrowful news"; "even in laughter the heart is sorrowful"- Proverbs 14:13.
