Lu·gu·bri·ous a. 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.
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lugubriousness
n : excessive sadness and mournfulness [syn: gloominess]