Lugubrious \Lu*gu"bri*ous\, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to
mourn; cf. Gr. lygro`s sad, Skr. ruj to break.]
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly;
doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious
look.
[1913 Webster]
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious
emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lugubrious
adj : excessively mournful
WordNet (r) 2.0
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "lugubrious":
aggrieved, anguished, black, bleak, careworn, cheerless,
depressant, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, doleful, dolorous,
dour, dreary, dumb with grief, glum, grief-stricken, griefful,
grieved, grievous, in grief, joyless, lamentable, morose, mournful,
oppressive, plaintive, plangent, plunged in grief, rueful,
saturnine, somber, sorrowed, sorrowful, sorrowing, sullen, tearful,
woeful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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