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单词 lugubrious
释义
lugubriouslu‧gu‧bri‧ous /luːˈɡuːbriəs/ adjective literary Word Origin
WORD ORIGINlugubrious
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin lugubris, from lugere ‘to be sad, mourn’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a lugubrious voice
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • After a few minutes the door opened and a young, lugubrious face looked out.
  • He remembered the merchant, long, lanky, and lugubrious of countenance.
  • Henry was large and jovial and partly bald, while Jimmy was small and rather lugubrious in appearance and hailed from Glasgow.
  • McNab's head was lowered and he seemed to be pondering in a lugubrious sort of way.
  • People ate lugubrious meals around the waterfalls, their faces green with marine sorrow.
  • She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal.
  • The Rectory drive was dank and dripping between its lugubrious laurels.
  • Their host was a huge, lugubrious man, who reminded Graham of Demis Roussos.
very sad and serious – sometimes used humorously SYN  melancholy, morose:  his lugubrious tear-stained facelugubriously adverb
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