Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - lugubrious
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Lugubrious
lugubrious
adjective Etymology: Latin lugubris, from lugere to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful Date: 1585 1. mournful; especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful dark, dramatic and ~ brooding — V. S. Pritchett 2. dismal a ~ landscape • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun
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adj. doleful, mournful, dismal. Derivatives lugubriously adv. lugubriousness n. Etymology: L lugubris f. lugere mourn ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. печальный (иногда также внешне); траурный; мрачный in lugubrious tones —- похоронным тоном (голосом) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather than lively or cheerful. (LITERARY) ...a tall, thin man with a long and lugubrious face... He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious. = melancholy ADJ • lugubriously The dog gazed at us lugubriously for a few minutes. ADV: ADV with v, ADV adj ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ adj literary or humorous very sad and serious (a lugubrious voice) - lugubriously adv - lugubriousness n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1601, from L. lugubris "mournful, mourning," from lugere "to mourn." Cognate with Gk. lygros "mournful, sad." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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