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Lugubrious definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LUGU'BRIOUS, a. [L. lugubris, from lugeo, to weep.]
Mournful; indicating sorrow; as a lugubrious look.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: excessively mournful

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Latin lugubris, from lug?re to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful Date: 1585 1. mournful; especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful <dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding — V. S. Pritchett> 2. dismal <a lugubrious landscape> • lugubriously adverb • lugubriousness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. doleful, mournful, dismal. Derivatives: lugubriously adv. lugubriousness n. Etymology: L lugubris f. lugere mourn

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lugubrious Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. ? sad, Skr. ruj to break.] Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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. = melancholy ADJ • lugubriously The dog gazed at us lugubriously for a few minutes. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Mournful, sorrowful, doleful, sad, gloomy, melancholy, complaining.

Moby Thesaurus

aggrieved, anguished, black, bleak, careworn, cheerless, depressant, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous, dour, dreary, dumb with grief, glum, grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, in grief, joyless, lamentable, morose, mournful, oppressive, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, rueful, saturnine, somber, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, sullen, tearful, woeful