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Lugubrious

Lugubrious. By Gina Bugli. Denotative Meaning. Dismal, mournful, or gloomy Especially with an exaggerated affected or unrelieved manner. Etymology. From Latin lūgubris , meaning “mournful, pertaining to mourning” (1595-1605) from lūgēre , meaning “to mourn”

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Lugubrious

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  1. Lugubrious By Gina Bugli

  2. Denotative Meaning • Dismal, mournful, or gloomy • Especially with an exaggerated affected or unrelieved manner

  3. Etymology • From Latin lūgubris, meaning “mournful, pertaining to mourning” (1595-1605) • from lūgēre, meaning “to mourn” • from PIE base leug- "to break, to cause pain"

  4. Examples from text • He was subdued and shaky and extremely lugubrious, answering in a low, uneven voice. —  Last Ditch - Ngaio Marsh - Roderick Alleyn 29 • But his eyes looked lugubrious, as if he felt he had not deserved so much bad luck, and there were bilious lines beneath them So Mr. May, in his room in the Moon and Stars, which was the best inn in Woodhouse--he must have a good hötel--lugubriously considered his position. —  The Lost Girl • And a proper lugubrious symbol it made for their lugubrious, prison-like, primitive view of the matter Now she had it off. —  The Brimming Cup

  5. Lugubrious things • Death • Cloudy days • Lost love • Depression • Mournful • Melancholy • Dismal attitudes • Funerals • Bleak weather • Dreary

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