Lugubrious

Quick meaning: Lugubrious is an adjective meaning Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

Meaning

Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

Example Sentences

His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.

I poured one big drink in a water glass, and we had slugs. Oh, it was sweet and delicious and worth my whole lugubrious voyage.

There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!—hidden out of sight somewhere.

The exaggeration with darkness imparted to the glooms of this region impressed Henchard more than he had expected. The lugubrious harmony of the spot with his domestic situation was too perfect for him, impatient of effects, scenes, and adumbrations.

Synonyms for lugubrious

Depending on context, synonyms include dreary, glum, miserable, cheerless, comfortless, bleak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sorrowful, sullen, sombrous, dour, moody, gloomy.

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