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lugubrious
Meaning: excessively mournful or gloomy
lugubrious in a sentence
How lugubrious is used in real sentences:
A lugubrious melody drifted from the empty theater.
The actor delivered the comic lines in a strangely lugubrious voice.
“One historian proposed a lugubrious interior of black wood and dim lamps; its renderings resembled a memorial crypt.”
— from the passage The Open Corner
“Instead, radiographs showed an intact casting, while an epistolary archive of foundry letters described a tone so lugubrious that parishioners compared it to a funeral knell.”
— from the passage The Fault in the Bronze
Synonyms for lugubrious
Other words for lugubrious — doleful, mournful and funereal — carry the same meaning.
- doleful
- mournful
- funereal
Antonyms of lugubrious
Words that mean the opposite of lugubrious:
- cheerful
- buoyant
- joyful
Where it comes from
From Latin lugubris, meaning 'mournful.'
Memory hook
LUGUBRIOUS sounds like 'gloomy blues': both suggest heavy sadness.
Practice lugubrious in the app