lu·gu·bri·ous

[loo-goo-bree-uhs, -gyoo-]
adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.

Origin:
1595–1605; < Latin lūgubri(s) mournful (akin to lūgēre to mourn) + -ous

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
non·lu·gu·bri·ous, adjective
non·lu·gu·bri·ous·ly, adverb
non·lu·gu·bri·ous·ness, noun
un·lu·gu·bri·ous, adjective
un·lu·gu·bri·ous·ly, adverb
un·lu·gu·bri·ous·ness, noun


sorrowful, melancholy.


cheerful.
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lugubrious (lʊˈɡuːbrɪəs) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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