English Explanatory Dictionary

lugubrious

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

Pronunciation

/luːˈɡ(j)uː.bɹi.əs/ /lʊˈɡ(j)uː.bɹi.əs/ /ləˈɡ(j)u.bɹi.əs/ en-us-lugubrious.ogg

Word forms

lugubrious more lugubrious most lugubrious

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūgubris (“mournful; gloomy”), with the suffix -ious.

Synonyms

dreary glum miserable cheerless comfortless bleak dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome gloomy grim joyless lack-laughter lugubrious melancholy mirthless no joke saturnine solemn somber sombre spiritless sullen sunless uncheerful uncheery unhappy unmerry wintry woeful atrabiliary atrabilious blitheless dispirited blue bummed out chapfallen chopfallen crestfallen cut up damp dejected depressed despondent disgruntled disheartened down

Derived words

lugubriate lugubriously lugubriousness unlugubrious
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