Synonyms for lugubrious
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
sorrowful, mournful, doleful, melancholy, somber US, sombre UK, gloomy, morose, funereal, dismal, glum, sullen, rueful, cheerless, moody, joyless, plaintive, dreary, forlorn, bleak, depressing, sad, woeful, miserable, tearful, unhappy, grief-stricken, stern, depressed, saturnine, dolorous, woebegone, dour, melancholic, grim, disconsolate, querulous, downcast, mopey, wretched, dull, despondent, lamentable, dispirited, pitiable
Definitions
- adj. 1
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
Example sentences
- somber We heard somber hollow sounds from the cave.
- mournful Tom stood at the window with a mournful expression on his face.
- doleful My dog died yesterday, so I'm quite doleful.
- glum Don't be so glum about it. Life has its ups and downs.
- joyless Other Jewish subgroups often stereotype Ashkenazim as boring and joyless.
By length
- 3 letters
- sad1
- 4 letters
- dull1, grim1, glum1, dour2
- 5 letters
- stern1, moody2, bleak1, mopey
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dismal2, dreary2, somber2, sombre, sullen2, woeful2, morose2, rueful2
- 7 letters
- unhappy3, tearful2, forlorn2, joyless, doleful2
- 8 letters
- wretched2, mournful2, downcast2, pitiable4, funereal, dolorous
- 9 letters
- miserable4, depressed2, sorrowful3, plaintive2, cheerless, saturnine, woebegone3, querulous3
- 10 letters
- depressing3, melancholy4, despondent3, lamentable4, dispirited4
- 11 letters
- melancholic4
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dour2 = 2 syllables).