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lugubriouslu‧gu‧bri‧ous /luːˈɡuːbriəs/ adjective literary lugubriousOrigin: 1600-1700 Latin lugubris, from lugere ‘to be sad, mourn’ - After a few minutes the door opened and a young, lugubrious face looked out.
- He remembered the merchant, long, lanky, and lugubrious of countenance.
- Henry was large and jovial and partly bald, while Jimmy was small and rather lugubrious in appearance and hailed from Glasgow.
- McNab's head was lowered and he seemed to be pondering in a lugubrious sort of way.
- People ate lugubrious meals around the waterfalls, their faces green with marine sorrow.
- She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal.
- The Rectory drive was dank and dripping between its lugubrious laurels.
- Their host was a huge, lugubrious man, who reminded Graham of Demis Roussos.
very sad and serious – sometimes used humorously SYN melancholy, morose: his lugubrious tear-stained face—lugubriously adverb |