English-Thai Dictionary

lugubrious

ADJ โศกเศร้า  สลดใจ  mournful sao-sok

 

lugubriousness

N ความเศร้า โศร ก  ความสลด ใจ 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LUGUBRIOUS

a.[L. lugubris, from lugeo, to weep. ] Mournful; indicating sorrow; as a lugubrious look.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

LUGUBRIOUS

Lu *gu "bri *ous, a. Etym: [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. ruj to break. ]

 

Defn: Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or 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. -- Lu *gu "bri *ous *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

lugubrious

lu gu bri ous |ləˈg (y )o͞obrēəs ləˈɡubriəs | ▶adjective looking or sounding sad and dismal. DERIVATIVES lu gu bri ous ly adverb, lu gu bri ous ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin lugubris (from lugere ‘mourn ’) + -ous .

 

Oxford Dictionary

lugubrious

lugubrious |lʊˈguːbrɪəs | ▶adjective looking or sounding sad and dismal: his face looked even more lugubrious than usual. DERIVATIVES lugubriously adverb, lugubriousness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin lugubris (from lugere ‘mourn ’) + -ous .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

lugubrious

lugubrious adjective lugubrious hymns | their lugubrious aunt: mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, glum, melancholy, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, somber, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour, cheerless, joyless, dismal; funereal, sepulchral; informal down in /at the mouth; literary dolorous. ANTONYMS cheerful. WORD NOTE lugubrious Loaded with baggy, pendulous vowels, lugubrious sounds as sad and dismal as its meaning. The mournful face of Peter Lorre comes to mind, as do performances by Lon Chaney and (perhaps it's just the cognate ) Bela Lugosi. — JS Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

lugubrious

lugubrious adjective his lugubrious expression | a lugubrious hymn: mournful, gloomy, sad, unhappy, doleful, Eeyorish, glum, melancholy, melancholic, woeful, miserable, woebegone, forlorn, despondent, dejected, depressed, long-faced, sombre, solemn, serious, sorrowful, morose, dour, mirthless, cheerless, joyless, wretched, dismal, grim, saturnine, pessimistic; funereal, sepulchral, dirge-like, elegiac; informal down in the mouth, down in the dumps, blue; Brit. informal looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny; literary dolorous. ANTONYMS cheerful, joyful.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

lugubrious

lu gu bri ous /ləɡúːbriəs /形容詞 ｟文 おどけて ｠もの悲しい ; 重苦しい, 暗い .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞