Lugubrious

//ləˈɡ(j)u.bɹi.əs// adj

adj ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

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

Synonyms

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sorrowfulacheronticaggrievedanguishedatrabiliaryatrabilious

Example

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"I'd prefer to be called lugubrious rather than a sad sack."

Etymology

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

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