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Lugubrious — Lu*gu bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. lygro s sad, Skr. ruj to break.] Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. [1913 Webster]… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
lugubrious — I adjective cheerless, crestfallen, dark, dejected, depressing, despondent, disconsolate, discouraged, disheartened, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, downcast, dreary, elegiac, flebilis, forbidding, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, glum, grieving … Law dictionary
lugubrious — c.1600, from L. lugubris mournful, pertaining to mourning, from lugere to mourn, from PIE root *leug to break; to cause pain (Cf. Gk. lygros mournful, sad, Skt. rujati breaks, torments, Lettish lauzit to break the heart ). Related: Lugubriously;… … Etymology dictionary
lugubrious — doleful, dolorous, *melancholy, rueful, plaintive Analogous words: depressing, oppressing or oppressive (see corresponding verbs at DEPRESS): sorrowful, woeful (see corresponding nouns at SORROW): gloomy, saturnine, dour, morose, glum, *sullen… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
lugubrious — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ mournful; sad and dismal. DERIVATIVES lugubriously adverb lugubriousness noun. ORIGIN Latin lugubris, from lugere mourn … English terms dictionary
lugubrious — [lə go͞o′brē əs, ləgyo͞o′brē əs] adj. [L lugubris < lugere, to mourn (< IE base * leuğ , *leug , to break > Welsh llwyth, burden) + OUS] very sad or mournful, esp. in a way that seems exaggerated or ridiculous lugubriously adv.… … English World dictionary
lugubrious — [[t]luːgu͟ːbriəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather than lively or cheerful. [LITERARY] ...a tall, thin man with a long and lugubrious face... He plays some passages so slowly… … English dictionary
lugubrious — adjective Etymology: Latin lugubris, from lugēre to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful Date: 1585 1. mournful; especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful < dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding V. S. Pritchett > 2. dismal < a lugubrious… … New Collegiate Dictionary
lugubrious — adjective lugubrious hymns their lugubrious aunt Syn: mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, glum, melancholy, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, somber, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour … Thesaurus of popular words
lugubrious — lugubriously, adv. lugubriousness, lugubriosity /leuh gooh bree os i tee, gyooh /, n. /loo gooh bree euhs, gyooh /, adj. mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love. [1595… … Universalium
