lugubrious

Meaning

Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

Synonyms

mournful

gloomy

somber

sombre

dreary

depressed

bleak

dismal

sullen

doleful

melancholic

woebegone

woeful

miserable

sad

☹️

dolorous

dejected

dull

elegiac

funeral

funereal

gaunt

grief-stricken

grievous

heartsick

low-spirited

mourning

obscure

pathetical

rueful

sable

sorrowful

subdued

tragic

tragical

chopfallen

unconsolable

dolourous

afflictive

cut-up

chapfallen

crestfallen

crummy

cut up

dark

desolate

despondent

dim

dingy

disheartened

Translations

lugubre

lugubre

lúgubre

lúgubre

somber

düster

mélancolique

πένθιμος

naargeestig

μελαγχολικός

droefgeestig

melancholiek

treurig

☹️

wehmütig

sombre

Pronounced as (IPA)

/luːˈɡ(j)uː.bɹi.əs/

Etymology

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