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lugubrious
exaggeratedly mournful or gloomy
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Questions about “lugubrious”
Lugubrious (adjective) means exaggeratedly mournful or gloomy
Here is lugubrious used in an example sentence: "He delivered the apology in such a lugubrious, woebegone tone that it almost bordered on comic."
Common synonyms for lugubrious include mournful, doleful, morose, dismal.
Antonyms of lugubrious include cheerful, jovial, buoyant.
Lugubrious is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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