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Definition of Lugubrious

Lugubrious
Lugubrious Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. ? 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. --Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Lugubrious from wikipedia

- melaina chole "black bile", "blackness of the bile"; compare also: lugubriousness, from Latin lugere, "to mourn"; moroseness, from Latin morosus, "self-will...
- The Lugubrious Game (or The Mournful Game) is a part oil painting and part collage on cardboard artwork created by Salvador Dalí in 1929. It displays references...
- Porridge and Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine. His lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years. Though...
- works such as The First Days of Spring, The Great ****or and The Lugubrious Game Dalí continued his exploration of the themes of ****ual anxiety and...
- – 9 January 1975) was a British character actor who usually portra**** lugubrious, amiable ****ney types. His father was an antiques dealer. After attending...
- demo as Haemorrhage, Grotesque Embryopathology. Near the end of 1993, Lugubrious and Ramon joined the band as vocalist and b****ist, respectively. Between...
- Window (1925) The Basket of Bread (1926) Apparatus and Hand (1927) The Lugubrious Game (1929) The First Days of Spring (1929) The Accommodations of Desire...
- the bug-eyes, the yelling, the Mick Jagger poses, the Oscar-winning lugubriousness. Whittaker, Richard (January 31, 2017). "Nicolas Cage Takes Over the...
- court of the monastery of Valldemossa, and a procession of monks chanting lugubrious prayers, and carrying in the dark hours of night their departed brother...
- from a position of fun, giddy strangeness and drags itself forward at a lugubrious pace." Ben Travers at IndieWire responded positively: "Steven Knight's...
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