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Excessive sadness and mournfulness
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lugubriousness
Word definitions for lugubriousness in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of being lugubrious.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
lugubriousness \lu*gu"bri*ous*ness\ n. 1. excessive sadness and mournfulness. Syn: gloominess.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. excessive sadness and mournfulness [syn: gloominess ]
Usage examples of lugubriousness.
The neighborhood appealed to me, particularly at night when the full squalor and lugubriousness of it made itself felt.
As a child my gorge rose at the lugubriousness of Pilgrim, and I had a wicked hankering for Vanity Fair.
With a finely mimicked lugubriousness, Heft Galewrath narrated the story of two stubbornly atrabilious and solitary Giants who thrashed each other into a love which they persistently mistook for mortal opposition.
Under the wide brim of his tall black hat the lugubriousness of his features was given the lie by mischievous blue eyes.
Yet Annek‚ found many of her movements acquiring a lugubriousness like swimming, if only from his suggestion.