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.

Simplified etymology

Lugubrious was coined from Latin lugubris, meaning “mournful” or “mourning.” It entered English during the 16th- and 17th-century fashion for expanding the vocabulary with words formed from Latin and Greek.

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

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