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词汇 lugubrious
释义 lugubrious
adjective
 literaryuk /luːˈɡuː.bri.əs/ us /luːˈɡuː.bri.əs/
sad and serious: 忧伤的,忧郁的,悲伤的
a lugubrious face愁眉苦脸的样子
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

Related words


lugubriously
lugubriousness

Examples of lugubrious


lugubrious
In the first section there are initial contrasts between low lugubrious rumblings and high shimmering textures, while soulful solos evolve in the orchestra, notably oboe, imitated by violins.
One waits for hours at bus stops and then sees convoys of buses of the same number pass in lugubrious funeral procession.
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So far, their interventions have been of a peculiarly lugubrious if irrelevant kind.
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We were assured in almost lugubrious tones that the submarines were a menace.
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They were an unhappy type, the lugubrious person with scarcely a smile, whom we all know.
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We have had this kind of thing ever since 1903 and these lugubrious prognostications as a rule do not materialise.
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In our lugubrious moods we often hear stories of vicious circles.
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It is perhaps rather lugubrious luck that his principal triumph should be as a superbly skilful funeral undertaker.
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He seems to take a rather lugubrious view of the country's prospects altogether.
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But there is no need to be lugubrious.
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I believe that it is also generally agreed as a lugubrious prophecy that the value of money will continue to fall.
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I think now we have been a little too lugubrious.
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An ounce of actual experience will be worth a ton of the present lugubrious and sometimes over-enthusiastic speculations.
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But with people not of our lugubrious race that sort of conduct tends to be misunderstood.
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He surpassed even his own record for lugubrious false prophecy.
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