lugubrious

[US]/lʊ'guːbrɪəs/
[UK]/lə'gʊbrɪəs/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. sorrowful; gloomy.

Phrases & Collocations

a lugubrious expression

a lugubrious atmosphere

Example Sentences

he put on a lugubrious look.

His lugubrious expression matched the somber mood of the funeral.

The lugubrious music added to the melancholy atmosphere of the film.

She delivered the news in a lugubrious tone, causing everyone to feel sad.

The lugubrious weather matched his gloomy mood perfectly.

The lugubrious painting evoked a sense of sorrow and despair.

His lugubrious sighs filled the room with a sense of sadness.

The lugubrious poem spoke of loss and heartbreak.

Her lugubrious demeanor made it clear she was not in a good mood.

The lugubrious melody haunted him long after the music had stopped.

The lugubrious news cast a shadow over the whole town.

Real-world Examples

" I am drinking, " replied the tippler, with a lugubrious air.

Source: The Little Prince

Susan uttered the lugubrious discourse three times slowly, and when it was completed the image had considerably diminished.

Source: Returning Home

That long, lugubrious howl rose on the night air again!

Source: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Perhaps, too, after what has happened, all previous events have taken on a lugubrious tint in my memory.

Source: Kreutzer Sonata

This incident, with variations, ran like a lugubrious fugue through the first year of marriage; always it left Anthony baffled, irritated, and depressed.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

My old acquaintance, it was true, was the most eccentric of men; but the present eccentricity was both disquieting and lugubrious to consider.

Source: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

Cecil and Lucy turned up at four o'clock, and these, with little Minnie Beebe, made a somewhat lugubrious sextette upon the upper lawn for tea.

Source: The Room with a View (Part Two)

These feathered people had existed too long in their distinct variety; a fact of which the present representatives, judging by their lugubrious deportment, seemed to be aware.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 1)

She went on with her work, putting into it a sudden violence inspired by the recollection; but Alice, enlightened, gave utterance to a laugh of lugubrious derision.

Source: Lonely Heart (Part 1)

I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.

Source: Jane Eyre (Original Version)

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