lugubrious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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.

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

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