lugubrious
lu·gu·bri·ous (l
-g
br
-
s, -gy-)
adj.
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
[From Latin l
gubris, from lgre, to mourn.]
lu·gubri·ous·ly adv.
lu·gubri·ous·ness n.
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| Adj. | 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
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lugubrious
adjective gloomy, serious, sad, dismal, melancholy, dreary, sombre, woeful, mournful, morose, sorrowful, funereal, doleful, woebegone, dirgelike
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