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lugubrious

UK/luːˈɡ(j)uː.bɹi.əs//ləˈɡ(j)u.bɹi.əs/

lugubrious adjective: gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

Adjective

lugubrious (comparative more lugubrious, superlative most lugubrious)

  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.
    • 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.1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter XIX, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 242

lugubrious meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

lugubrious in Urdu

آزردہ, غمگین, اداس

lugubrious in Bengali

শোকাবহ, বিষণ্ণ

lugubrious in Malayalam

sad, mournful, gloomy
പരിതാപകരമായ, വ്യസനകരമായ, വിഷാദഭാവമുള്ള, തപിത, ദുഃഖിതമായ, ശോകാത്മകമായ

lugubrious in Kannada

ಅಳು ಮೋರೆಯ, ಜೋಲು ಮುಖದ, ಮರುಗುವ, ಶೋಕಭರಿತ, ವ್ಯಥೆಯ, ದುಃಖದ

Synonyms of lugubrious

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Forms of lugubrious

comparativemore lugubrious
superlativemost lugubrious

Origin of lugubrious

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

Words formed from lugubrious

Questions about lugubrious

What does lugubrious mean?
Lugubrious means gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
What is lugubrious in Urdu?
Lugubrious in Urdu is آزردہ, غمگین, اداس. See Lugubrious meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is lugubrious?
Lugubrious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce lugubrious?
Lugubrious is pronounced /luːˈɡ(j)uː.bɹi.əs/ (UK).

Words near lugubrious in the dictionary

  1. lugubriate
  2. lugubriated
  3. lugubriates
  4. lugubriating
  5. lugubriosity
  6. lugubrious
  7. lugubriously
  8. lugubriousness
  9. Luguru
  10. Lugus
  11. Lugwardine

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lugubrious (page history and authors); lugubrious (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lugubrious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lugubrious (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); lugubrious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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