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lugubrious

[ loo-goo-bree-uhs, -gyoo- ]

adjective

  1. mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner:

    lugubrious songs of lost love.

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lugubrious

/ ʊˈɡːɪə /

adjective

  1. excessively mournful; doleful
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܲdzܲ, adverb
  • ˈܲdzܲԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·b·dzܲ· adverb
  • ·b·dzܲ·Ա ···Dz··ٲ [l, uh, -goo-bree-, os, -i-tee, -gyoo-], noun
  • ԴDzl·b·dzܲ adjective
  • non·b·dzܲ· adverb
  • non·b·dzܲ·Ա noun
  • ܲl·b·dzܲ adjective
  • un·b·dzܲ· adverb
  • un·b·dzܲ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lugubrious1

First recorded in 1595–1605; from Latin ūܲ() “mournful” (akin to ūŧ “to mourn”) + -ous
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of lugubrious1

C17: from Latin ūܲ mournful, from ūŧ to grieve
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Example Sentences

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He described himself as a "shy, serious, lugubrious kid, painfully thin, with a long, sad face".

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With all the lugubrious handwringing over Biden and the Democrats saying Trump is a threat to democracy, nobody seems to care that his instinct in that horrible moment was to incite more violence.

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At once lugubrious and nutty, depressing and daring, “The Attachment Diaries” unfolds, for the first hour or so, in the softest black and white.

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The mayor, 43, recalled visiting the pyramid as a schoolboy soon after it opened in 1988 as a lugubrious memorial to Mr. Hoxha.

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The result isn’t lugubrious on the album, and it isn’t in performance, either.

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