lugubrious
adjective
[ lʊˈɡuːbrɪəs ]
• looking or sounding sad and dismal.
• "his face looked even more lugubrious than usual"
Similar:
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,
down in the mouth,
down in the dumps,
blue,
dolorous,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin lugubris (from lugere ‘mourn’) + -ous.
