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lugubrious
What does lugubrious mean?
lugubrious (adjective): excessively mournful.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use lugubrious in a sentence?
- I'd prefer to be called lugubrious rather than a sad sack. (Tatoeba sentence #8985245 by mccarras, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce lugubrious?
/luɡˈjubɹiəs/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does lugubrious come from?
Borrowed from Latin lūgubris (“mournful; gloomy”), with the suffix -ious.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “lugubrious” mean?
hasty or superficial
Not quite: that's what cursory means.
not returned in kind
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delicately beautiful
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excessively mournful
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