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Lugubrious

//ləˈɡ(j)u.bɹi.əs// adj

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

    "His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words."

Adjective
  1. 1
    excessively mournful wordnet

Etymology

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

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