Explore Lugubrious through 4 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like sorrowful. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Lugubrious in a sentence
Lugubrious meaning
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Synonyms of Lugubrious
Using Lugubrious
- The main meaning on this page is: Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
- Useful related words include: sorrowful.
Context around Lugubrious
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lugubrious
- In this selection, "lugubrious" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sometimes, face, manner and oliver stand out and add context to how "lugubrious" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include detached sometimes lugubrious sometimes tender and phoenix and lugubrious oliver reed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lugubrious" sits close to words such as aaai, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lugubrious
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Russell Crowe bellows and glowers opposite hyper-evil Joaquin Phoenix and lugubrious Oliver Reed (who died during production). (18 words)
At the time a colonel in his mid-30s, Barksdale, a bald, bearish man with a lugubrious manner, grew up in a rough section of West Baltimore. (27 words)
The "mature" Larkin style, first evident in The Less Deceived, is "that of the detached, sometimes lugubrious, sometimes tender observer", who, in Hartley's phrase, looks at "ordinary people doing ordinary things". (32 words)
That said, though, the armor alone is worth a visit — a silver shin protector with a woman’s lugubrious face at the kneecap is particularly memorable, as are several discrete hoards of identical solid-gold ornaments. (36 words)
The "mature" Larkin style, first evident in The Less Deceived, is "that of the detached, sometimes lugubrious, sometimes tender observer", who, in Hartley's phrase, looks at "ordinary people doing ordinary things". (32 words)
At the time a colonel in his mid-30s, Barksdale, a bald, bearish man with a lugubrious manner, grew up in a rough section of West Baltimore. (27 words)
Example sentences (4)
That said, though, the armor alone is worth a visit — a silver shin protector with a woman’s lugubrious face at the kneecap is particularly memorable, as are several discrete hoards of identical solid-gold ornaments.
At the time a colonel in his mid-30s, Barksdale, a bald, bearish man with a lugubrious manner, grew up in a rough section of West Baltimore.
Russell Crowe bellows and glowers opposite hyper-evil Joaquin Phoenix and lugubrious Oliver Reed (who died during production).
The "mature" Larkin style, first evident in The Less Deceived, is "that of the detached, sometimes lugubrious, sometimes tender observer", who, in Hartley's phrase, looks at "ordinary people doing ordinary things".