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lugubrious
excessively mournful or gloomy
Synonyms
- doleful
- mournful
- funereal
Antonyms
- cheerful
- buoyant
- joyful
lugubrious in a sentence
A lugubrious melody drifted from the empty theater.
The actor delivered the comic lines in a strangely lugubrious voice.
Where it comes from
From Latin lugubris, meaning 'mournful.'
Memory hook
LUGUBRIOUS sounds like 'gloomy blues': both suggest heavy sadness.
Read it in context
- The Open Corner Arts
- The Fault in the Bronze Science
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