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1 Lugubrious -- rank: 1000

Lugubrious definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary LUGU'BRIOUS, a. [L. lugubris, from lugeo, to weep.] Mournful; indicating sorrow; as a lugubrious look. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: excessively mournful ... 1. mournful; especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful < dark, dramatic and lugubrious brooding — V. S. Pritchett > 2. dismal < a lugubrious landscape > • lugubriously adverb • lugubriousness noun Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. doleful ... Etymology: L lugubris f. lugere mourn Webster's 1913 Dictionary Lugubrious Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to ... feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of ...

2 lugubriously -- rank: 589

... WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adv 1: in a sorrowful lugubrious manner; "his long face lugubriously reflecting a hidden and unexpressed compassion" Merriam Webster's adverb see lugubrious Webster's 1913 Dictionary Lugubrious Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to ... 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 ... gu"bri*ous*ness, n. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary see lugubrious

3 lugubriousness -- rank: 486

... uncheerfulness [syn: gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness] Merriam Webster's noun see lugubrious Webster's 1913 Dictionary Lugubrious Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to ... 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 ...

4 Mournful -- rank: 419

... Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn: Sorrowful; lugubrious; sad; doleful; heavy; afflictive; grievous; calamitous. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary ... afflictive, grievous, calamitous, lamentable, melancholy, deplorable, woful. 2. Sad, melancholy, lugubrious, doleful, sorrowful, heavy. 3. Sorrowful, sad, unhappy, melancholy, heavy-hearted ... grievous, heartbroken, heartsick, howling, in grief, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive, lugubrious, melancholy, moanful, mortuary, moving, necrological, obituary, obsequial, overcome, painful, pathetic ...

5 Dismal -- rank: 419

... Syn: Dreary; lonesome; gloomy; dark; ominous; ill-boding; fatal; doleful; lugubrious; funereal; dolorous; calamitous; sorrowful; sad; joyless; melancholy; unfortunate; unhappy. Collin ... dull, dreary, lonesome. 2. Melancholy, mournful, sad, doleful, dolorous, sombre, lugubrious, funereal. 3. Horrid, horrible, terrible, dire, frightful. Moby Thesaurus Cassandra ... joyless, lamentable, lead-gray, leaden, lifeless, livid, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, morose, mortuary, mournful, mouse-colored, mouse-gray, mousy ...

6 Melancholy -- rank: 331

... 1. Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, disconsolate, doleful, dismal, lugubrious, moody, gloomy, hypochondriac, dumpish, mopish, glum, downcast, desponding, down-hearted ... lachrymose, lamentable, life-weariness, life-weary, low, low-spirited, lowering, lugubrious, lugubriousness, melancholia, melancholic, melancholiness, miserable, miserableness, misery, moanful, moodiness, moodish ...

7 Funereal -- rank: 331

... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms a. Mournful, sad, woful, lugubrious, melancholy, sepulchral, dark, sombre, gloomy, dismal, suitable to a funeral ... gloomy, grave, gray, grievous, grim, ill-lighted, ill-lit, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, mortuary, mournful, necrological, nigrescent, obituary, obsequial, oppressive, overcast ...

8 Rueful -- rank: 331

... woful, sorrowful, lamentable. 2. Melancholy, sad, sorrowful, piteous, pitiful, grievous, lugubrious, dismal. Moby Thesaurus addicted, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, ashamed, bitter ... grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, hopeless, in grief, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, moving, oppressed, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive ...

9 Dolorous -- rank: 331

... gloomy, cheerless, dark, dolesome. 2. Sorrowful, sad, piteous, rueful, woful, lugubrious, mournful, doleful, dolesome. Moby Thesaurus affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished ... grief-stricken, griefful, grieved, grievous, heartbreaking, in grief, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, miserable, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, plaintive, plangent, plunged ...

10 Sorrowful -- rank: 331

... Dismal, disconsolate, drear, dreary, rueful, woful, doleful, melancholy, sorry, piteous, lugubrious. Moby Thesaurus Jeremianic, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, bitter, bleak ... howling, in grief, in the doldrums, inconsolable, joyless, lamentable, lamentive, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, moanful, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, peevish, petulant, piteous ...

11 Sombre -- rank: 331

... unilluminated, obscure, dismal, sombrous, gloomy. 2. Melancholy, sad, mournful, doleful, lugubrious, funereal, dull, dismal, grave. Moby Thesaurus black, bleak, cheerless, dark ... grave, grey, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, joyless, leaden, lowering, lugubrious, melancholic, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, murky, overcast, sad, sedate, serious ...

12 Forlorn -- rank: 209

... in despair, inconsolable, joyless, kithless, lonely, lonesome, lost, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, motherless, mournful, neglected, oppressed, outcast, pathetic, pessimistic, pitiable ...

13 woeful -- rank: 209

... the dumps, inconsolable, infamous, joyless, lamentable, loathsome, lousy, low-spirited, lugubrious, miserable, monstrous, mournful, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious ...

14 woebegone -- rank: 209

... doldrums, in the dumps, joyless, lamentable, languishing, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, melancholy, miserable, mournful, moving, oppressive, outworn, painful, pathetic, pessimistic, pining ...

15 depressed -- rank: 209

... low-lying, low-set, low-spirited, low-statured, lowered, luckless, lugubrious, melancholy, nauseated, nauseous, neap, notched, ominous, out of luck, pessimistic ...