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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
–adjective
Century Dictionary (3 definitions)
- Synonyms Sorrowful, melancholy, doleful.
- Exciting mournful feelings; pitiful; dismal; depressing: as, a lugubrious spectacle or event.
- Characterized by or expressing mourning or sorrow; mournful; doleful; funereal; dejected: as, lugubrious wailing; a lugubrious look or voice.
GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)
- Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable.
–adjective
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As a romantic leading man in lugubrious soap operas, he's as rigid and wooden as a cypress log.
- "Location old core?" the recorder said in lugubrious tones.—Survivors
It is painted in lugubrious white, and its pillars have false bases in a palpable imitation of veined red marble.
When asked by the ringman what that act signified, he drawled out, in lugubrious tones, "Soldier eating Christmas dinner!"
"Well, this is a delightful ending to our picnic," said Mr Moynham in lugubrious tones, as we all lay on the ground, with the exception of the guides, who appeared to mingle freely with the robbers, who were grouped in picturesque attitudes around us, leaning on their carbines.
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/ (lo͝o-go͞oˈbrē-əs, -gyo͞oˈ-)/
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From Latin lūgubris, from lūgēre, to mourn.
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