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Definition of Lugubriousness

Lugubriousness
Lugubrious Lu*gu"bri*ous, a. [L. lugubris, fr. lugere to mourn; cf. Gr. ? sad, Skr. ruj to break.] Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.

Meaning of Lugubriousness from wikipedia

- The Lugubrious Game (or The Mournful Game) is a part oil painting and part collage-on-cardboard work created by Salvador Dalí in 1929. The name of the...
- major depression. Related terms used in historical medicine include lugubriousness (from Latin lugere: "to mourn"), moroseness (from Latin morosus: "self-will...
- at 6' 3" (1.91 metres), his gentle demeanour became his hallmark. His lugubrious world-weary face was a staple of British television for forty years. Though...
- Fighters songs). Grunge has been called the rock genre with the most "lugubrious sound"; the use of heavy distortion and loud amps has been compared to...
- term in fact came from the figural sense of "black", that is ghastly, lugubrious or dreadful. Acral necrosis may be a symptom of other diseases too. It...
- Wicked, she felt, "turns a wonderfully spontaneous world of fantasy into a lugubrious allegorical realm, in which everything and everyone is labeled with a...
- Canada and Ireland from May to October 2000.: 248–249  Reveal shared the "lugubrious pace" of Up,: 303  and featured drumming by Joey Waronker, as well as...
- Song"], introducing himself much as Sir Joseph Porter had done ... a lugubrious comic number for the Sergeant of Police ... a song of confession for Ruth...
- hard and keep full value of note (>) lontano Distant, far away lugubre Lugubrious, mournful luminoso Luminous lunga Long (often applied to a fermata) lusingando...
- works such as The First Days of Spring, The Great ****or and The Lugubrious Game Dalí continued his exploration of the themes of ****ual anxiety and...