Lugubrious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
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  • adj. gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Characterized by or expressing mourning or sorrow; mournful; doleful; funereal; dejected: as, lugubrious wailing; a lugubrious look or voice.
  • Exciting mournful feelings; pitiful; dismal; depressing: as, a lugubrious spectacle or event.
  • Synonyms Sorrowful, melancholy, doleful.
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  • adj. excessively mournful
    • Equivalent
    sorrowful   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    mournful    doleful    woful    pitiable    depressing   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    doleful    plaintive    mournful    somber    rueful   
     
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