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/luːˈɡ(j)uː.bɹi.əs/ · adjective
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree..
His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
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.
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.
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.
The congregation was "spellbound unto the Meekest of its Members," and none more so than Rick himself, who sits in an enraptured trance, nodding his broad head to the cadences of Makepeace's rhetoric, even though every Welsh note of it — to the excited ears and eyes of those around him — is hurled at Rick personally down the length of the aisle, and rammed home with a botched stab of the lugubrious Watermaster forefinger.
Use lugubrious when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lugubrious means Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree..
Common synonyms include dreary, glum, miserable, cheerless.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
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