lugubrious

adjective

lu·gu·bri·ous lu̇-ˈgü-brē-əs How to pronounce lugubrious (audio)

also -ˈgyü-

: mournful

especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly (see affected entry 2 sense 1a) mournful

dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding

V. S. Pritchett

the tour de force of lugubrious cliche is ten times longer than this review

Martin Amis

: dismal

a lugubrious landscape

lugubrious cello music

lugubriously adverb

lugubriousness noun

Example Sentences

a comic actor known for his lugubrious manner the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience

Recent Examples on the Web The film is in part lugubrious in its longing for obsolescent objects, in its yearning for years before iPhones (with which the crisis of the film would otherwise be more easily solved).

Dini Adanurani, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022 Part of the problem: the generally lugubrious choice of musical material.

New York Times, 13 June 2022 Wall Street’s lugubrious mood dragged into Friday, with the major U.S. indexes on track to extend their losses a day after registering their steepest slump since the beginning of the pandemic.

Washington Post, 6 May 2022 The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up.

New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022 Black Milk’s lugubrious boom-bap also scores the group’s commentary on our pandemic present and pro-marijuana rhetoric informed by their respective forays into the cannabis industry.

Max Bell, SPIN, 17 Mar. 2022 Another facet of the exhibit featured a section on its rather lugubrious-looking, brooding Romanesque Revival red-brick headquarters at Calvert and Redwood streets.

Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2022 So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout.

WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022 So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout.

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单词	lugubriously
释义	lugubrious adjective lu·gu·bri·ous lu̇-ˈgü-brē-əs also -ˈgyü- 1 : mournful especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly (see affected entry 2 sense 1a) mournful dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding V. S. Pritchett the tour de force of lugubrious cliche is ten times longer than this review Martin Amis 2 : dismal a lugubrious landscape lugubrious cello music lugubriously adverb lugubriousness noun Did you know? Lugubrious Has Latin Roots Lugubrious is the sole surviving English offspring of Latin lugēre, meaning "to mourn." Its closest kin, luctual, an adjective meaning "sad" or "sorrowful," was put to rest centuries ago. Synonyms black bleak cheerless chill Cimmerian cloudy cold comfortless dark darkening depressing depressive desolate dire disconsolate dismal drear dreary dreich [chiefly Scottish] elegiac elegiacal forlorn funereal gloomy glum godforsaken gray grey lonely lonesome miserable morbid morose murky plutonian saturnine sepulchral solemn somber sombre sullen sunless tenebrific tenebrous wretched See all Synonyms & Antonyms Example Sentences a comic actor known for his lugubrious manner the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience Recent Examples on the Web The film is in part lugubrious in its longing for obsolescent objects, in its yearning for years before iPhones (with which the crisis of the film would otherwise be more easily solved). Dini Adanurani, Variety, 9 Aug. 2022 Part of the problem: the generally lugubrious choice of musical material. New York Times, 13 June 2022 Wall Street’s lugubrious mood dragged into Friday, with the major U.S. indexes on track to extend their losses a day after registering their steepest slump since the beginning of the pandemic. Washington Post, 6 May 2022 The boom-and-bust border economy birthed a lugubrious landscape where homes suffer water shortages and bodies of missing persons turn up. New York Times, 23 Mar. 2022 Black Milk’s lugubrious boom-bap also scores the group’s commentary on our pandemic present and pro-marijuana rhetoric informed by their respective forays into the cannabis industry. Max Bell, SPIN, 17 Mar. 2022 Another facet of the exhibit featured a section on its rather lugubrious-looking, brooding Romanesque Revival red-brick headquarters at Calvert and Redwood streets. Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 16 Mar. 2022 So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022 So do many of the images, the lugubrious pace and the direction throughout. WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022 See More Word History Etymology Latin lugubris, from lugēre to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful First Known Use 1585, in the meaning defined at sense 1 lugubriously adverb as in sorrowfully with feelings of bitterness or grief 18th-century gravestones typically have inscriptions in which the brevity of life and the certainty of death are lugubriously noted Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance sorrowfully bitterly mournfully sadly painfully dolefully dolorously ruefully plaintively sharply unhappily resentfully agonizingly regretfully harshly inconsolably hard wretchedly woefully grievously dispiritedly wailfully morosely despairingly disconsolately cheerlessly severely glumly dejectedly sorely distressfully gloomily dourly drearily despondently somberly sullenly joylessly darkly forlornly mirthlessly blackly dismally abjectly miserably pessimistically distressingly hardly poignantly piercingly acutely cruelly keenly hurtfully rancorously downheartedly ill crestfallenly low-spiritedly Antonyms & Near Antonyms joyously joyfully happily cheerfully cheerily blissfully sunnily mirthfully merrily gayly gleefully delightedly gaily lightheartedly gladly rejoicingly unconcernedly nonchalantly blithely indifferently calmly stoically casually impassively lightly dispassionately easily good-naturedly well favorably blithesomely See More
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