lugubrious
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bri adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
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| —adj | |
| excessively mournful; doleful | |
| [C17: from Latin lūgubris mournful, from lūgēre to grieve] | |
| lu'gubriously | |
| —adv | |
| lu'gubriousness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
lugubrious
c.1600, from L. lugubris "mournful, pertaining to mourning," from lugere "to mourn," from PIE base *leug- "to break, to cause pain" (cf. Gk. lygros "mournful, sad," Skt. rujati "breaks, torments," Lettish lauzit "to break the heart").
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Example sentences
Nor does he succeed in making plausible this lugubrious soul-search of his town.
At last the waxen image is again deposited in the church, and the same lugubrious chants echo anew.
Some of the more lugubrious were sure that it was a judgment.
Take, for example, the lugubrious statements of once respected investigators.
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