LUGUBRIOUS DEFINITIONS - 9 definitions found
lugubrious adj 1: excessively mournful Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) lugubrious adjective Etymology: Latin lugubris, from lugēre 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 English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary lugubrious 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 English Explanatory Dictionary lugubrious lu:ˈɡu:brɪəs adj. doleful, mournful, dismal. øølugubriously adv. lugubriousness n. [L lugubris f. lugere mourn] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms lugubrious a. Mournful, sorrowful, doleful, sad, gloomy, melancholy, complaining. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 38 Moby Thesaurus words for "lugubrious": 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 |
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