lugubrious
adjective
1. excessively mournful
Similar word(s): sorrowful
Sentences with lugubrious as an adjective:
- The poor lighting and sparse maintenance, plus the rarefied traffic on its wide boulevards, made the effect of Pyongyang on the tourist distinctly lugubrious.
- His client's lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.