lugubrious in English

adjective

1

looking or sounding sad and dismal.

And so my evening ended with the lugubrious sight and sound, fortunately unseen and unheard, of a chubby old poet singing along to a faltering self-accompaniment, working through a few old style songs.

synonyms: mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, glum, melancholy, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, somber, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour, cheerless, joyless, dismal, funereal, sepulchral, down in/at the mouth, dolorous

adjective

mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, glum, melancholy, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, somber, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour, cheerless, joyless, dismal, funereal, sepulchral, down in/at the mouth, dolorous

Use "lugubrious" in a sentence

1. James was in lugubrious mood.

2. Why are you looking so lugubrious?

3. The whole effect was hideous, petty , lugubrious, and narrow.

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

5. He remembered the merchant, long, lanky, and lugubrious of countenance.

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

7. This ingredient does not invite or generally produce lugubrious lamentation.

8. Would that I had never inherited that Bloatsome and lugubrious legacy

9. He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious.

10. She could imagine what was going on in the lugubrious depths of Baikal.

11. These things are charming when one is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad.

12. He had a long lugubrious face with drooping and soft pouches beneath the eyes.

13. People ate lugubrious meals around the waterfalls, their faces green with marine sorrow.

14. After a few minutes the door opened and a young, lugubrious face looked out.

15. McNab's head was lowered and he seemed to be pondering in a lugubrious sort of way.

16. He had a long lugubrious face with drooping jowls and soft pouches beneath the eyes.

17. Roguet had set the lugubrious example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring him a Prussian prisoner.

18. He only existed in relation to Ryder's, and by extension Waugh's, lugubrious loathing for what the future held.

19. Henry was large and jovial and partly bald, while Jimmy was small and rather lugubrious in appearance and hailed from Glasgow.

20. The Blazonry of the huge escutcheon met and returned the rays with as brilliant a reflection as that lugubrious object was capable of, and the whole apartment looked with

21. I a): Melancholicus has a series of duple-metre Allegrettos, nearly always in the minor and filled with appropriately lugubrious sighing figures, while Sanguineus answers with sprightly, triple-metre Prestos in the major