lugubrious
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Adjective (1)
- excessively mournful
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Lu·gu′bri·ous adjective
Origin: L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. λυγρός sad, Skr. ruj to break.
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality.— Nathaniel Hawthorne
— Lu·gu′wb-a1′>′bri·ous·ly, adverb — Lu·gu′wb-a1′>′bri·ous·ness, noun
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54