First Known Use: 1585
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lugubrious
adjective lu·gu·bri·ous \lu̇-ˈgü-brē-əs also -ˈgyü-\
: full of sadness or sorrow : very sad especially in an exaggerated or insincere way
Full Definition of LUGUBRIOUS
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: mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful <dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding — V. S. Pritchett>
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Origin of LUGUBRIOUS
Latin lugubris, from lugēre to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful
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- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, gloomy, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
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