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What (who) is lugubriously - definition
lugubriously
see lugubrious
lugubrious
![''[[Melencolia I]]'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]], 1514](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albrecht Dürer - Melencolia I - Google Art Project ( AGDdr3EHmNGyA).jpg?width=200 "''[[Melencolia I]]'' by [[Albrecht Dürer]], 1514")
![Ch. Boirau, ''The Spleen'' (''Melancholy''). Postcard, c. 1915.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ch. Boirau, "The Spleen" ("Melancholy").jpg?width=200 "Ch. Boirau, ''The Spleen'' (''Melancholy''). Postcard, c. 1915.")
![The young [[John Donne]], the very picture of fashionable melancholy in the Jacobean era](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John Donne BBC News.jpg?width=200 "The young [[John Donne]], the very picture of fashionable melancholy in the Jacobean era")
![''Melancholy'', [[etching]] by [[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione]], 1640s](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Melancholy-Castiglione.jpg?width=200 "''Melancholy'', [[etching]] by [[Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione]], 1640s")
![Frontispiece]] for the 1628 3rd edition of ''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, 1626, 2nd edition.jpg?width=200 "Frontispiece]] for the 1628 3rd edition of ''[[The Anatomy of Melancholy]]''")
MOOD DISORDER OF NON-SPECIFIC DEPRESSION
Black bile; Melancholic; Melencolia; Melencoly; Lugubrious; Moroseness; Morose; Wistfulness; Cult of melancholia; Melancholia (temperament)
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
lugubrious
MOOD DISORDER OF NON-SPECIFIC DEPRESSION
Black bile; Melancholic; Melencolia; Melencoly; Lugubrious; Moroseness; Morose; Wistfulness; Cult of melancholia; Melancholia (temperament)
a.
Mournful, sorrowful, doleful, sad, gloomy, melancholy, complaining.
Examples of use of lugubriously
1. And so, lugubriously, to Southern Cross hospital, in Invercargill, where, we learn from the ever reliable New Zealand Herald, a man having haemorrhoids removed has suffered minor burns in a brief but dramatic operating–theatre fire blamed on the unexpected combustion of his own gas.