I'd prefer to be called lugubrious rather than a sad sack.
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Lugubrious
//ləˈɡ(j)u.bɹi.əs//
Synonyms for "lugubrious" (155 found)
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Strong matches (47)
Related words (77)
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4 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
41 translations across 21 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- мрачен adj (gloomy)
- печален adj (gloomy)
Catalan
1 entries- llòbrec adj (gloomy)
Danish
1 entries- dyster adj (gloomy)
Dutch
1 entries- luguber adj (gloomy)
French
1 entries- lugubre adj (gloomy)
Georgian
3 entries- ნაღვლიანი adj (gloomy)
- ჟამი adj (gloomy)
- სევდიანი adj (gloomy)
German
2 entries- düster adj (gloomy)
- kummervoll adj (gloomy)
Hungarian
4 entries- gyászos adj (gloomy)
- lugubriózus adj (gloomy)
- siralmas adj (gloomy)
- siránkozó adj (gloomy)
Icelandic
4 entries- hryggðar adj (gloomy)
- raunamæddur adj (gloomy)
- sorgar adj (gloomy)
- sorgbitinn adj (gloomy)
Italian
1 entries- lugubre adj (gloomy)
Latin
1 entries- lūgubris adj (gloomy)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- luguber adj (gloomy)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- luguber adj (gloomy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آجی adj (gloomy)
Portuguese
2 entries- lôbrego adj (gloomy)
- lúgubre adj (gloomy)
Romanian
1 entries- lugubru adj (gloomy)
Russian
4 entries- мра́чный adj (gloomy)
- печа́льный adj (gloomy)
- скорбный adj (gloomy)
- траурный adj (gloomy)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- sumoran adj (gloomy)
Slovak
2 entries- pochmúrny adj (gloomy)
- ponurý adj (gloomy)
Spanish
4 entries- lóbrego adj (gloomy)
- lúgubre adj (gloomy)
- sombrío adj (gloomy)
- triste adj (gloomy)
Swedish
2 entries- dyster adj (gloomy)
- luguber adj (gloomy)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
Source: wiktionary
The exaggeration with darkness imparted to the glooms of this region impressed Henchard more than he had expected. The lugubrious harmony of the spot with his domestic situation was too perfect for him, impatient of effects, scenes, and adumbrations.
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There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives—he called them enemies!—hidden out of sight somewhere.
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