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LUGUBRIOUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lugubrious mean?
• LUGUBRIOUS (adjective)
The adjective LUGUBRIOUS has 1 sense:
1. excessively mournful
Familiarity information: LUGUBRIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Excessively mournful
Similar:
sorrowful (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss)
Derivation:
lugubriousness (the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness)
Context examples
He broke out in a merry whistle, which quickly became lugubrious and ceased.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The dogs dashed on, but at the threshold suddenly stopped and snarled, and then, simultaneously lifting their noses, began to howl in most lugubrious fashion.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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