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lugubriousness

lugubriousness \lu*gu"bri*ous*ness\ n. 1. excessive sadness and mournfulness.

Syn: gloominess.

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lugubriousness

n. The property of being lugubrious.

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lugubriousness

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 Annekā€š found many of her movements acquiring a lugubriousness like swimming, if only from his suggestion.