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lu⋅gu⋅bri⋅ous

  [loo-goo-bree-uhs, -gyoo-]
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–adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L lūgubri(s) mournful (akin to lūgēre to mourn) + -ous

Related forms:
lu⋅gu⋅bri⋅ous⋅ly, adverb
lu⋅gu⋅bri⋅ous⋅ness, lu⋅gu⋅bri⋅os⋅i⋅ty  [luh-goo-bree-os-i-tee, -gyoo-] , noun

Synonyms:
sorrowful, melancholy.

Antonyms:
cheerful.
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lu·gu·bri·ous   (lŏŏ-gōō'brē-əs, -gyōō'-)   
adj.  Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

[From Latin lūgubris, from lūgēre, to mourn.]
lu·gu'bri·ous·ly adv., lu·gu'bri·ous·ness n.
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Lugubrious

Lu*gu"bri*ous\, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. ? sad, Skr. ruj to break.] Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.

Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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lugubrious 
1601, 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").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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