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    [Adjective]  | "lu*gu*bri*ous" | \ lu̇-ˈgü-brē-əs \


    1: mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful

    2: dismal


    Origin: 1585 ;

     Latin lugubris, from lugēre to mourn; akin to Greek lygros mournful;

    [Adverb]  | "lugubriously" 


    1: with feelings of bitterness or grief;


      * e.g., " ... 18th-century gravestones typically have inscriptions in which the brevity of life and the certainty of death are lugubriously noted "





    [Adjective]  | "lugubrious" 


    1: causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer;


      * e.g., " ... the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience "





    2: expressing or suggesting mourning;


      * e.g., " ... in Victorian times, people who could affect particularly lugubrious expressions were hired to march in funeral processions as professional mourners "



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     [ "lugubriousness" ]

    1: Being in a depressed mess, that nobody wants to be around, or be in. Acting, mournful ,or gloomy, But in an exaggerating manner.

      * e.g.,  ... Emily and I were going to attend Shelly's clambake, but ROBERT had to go and ruin everything by being his same old lugubrious self. He was in a pitiful state of lugubriousness, that put me in a very depressing mode. DAMN YOU ROBERT! 


     [ "lugubriousness" ]

    2:  You can be a lugubrious person, like ROBERT.

     [ "Lugubrious" ]

    1: To be very intoxicated from the use of excessive alcohol consumption.

      * e.g.,  ... Duuudde! WE’RE GETTING FUCKING LUGUBRIOUS TONIGHT! 

     [ "lugubrious" ]

    1: Mournful or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

      * e.g.,  ... A shovel, tombstone, and other lugubrious items were in the cemetary. 

     [ "lugubrious" ]

    1: a word that describes both boredom and sexiness of a person, neither can be excluded to mean just one or the other. Often used in the wrong place at the wrong time, it makes no sense. This word cannot be conjugated either.

      * e.g.,  ... a: yo shizzle i met the bitch that was so fuckin lugubrious! 

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