Lugubrious
Lugubrious adjective - Causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer.
Usage example: the diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly lugubrious experience
Melancholic is a synonym for lugubrious in mournful topic. In some cases you can use "Melancholic" instead an adjective "Lugubrious".
Nearby Word: lugubriously
Melancholic
Melancholic adjective - Feeling unhappiness.
Usage example: she becomes quite melancholic when she reflects on all the lost opportunities of her life
Lugubrious is a synonym for melancholic in depressed topic. You can use "Lugubrious" instead an adjective "Melancholic".
Nearby Words: melancholy, melancholia
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- low and lugubrious
- low and melancholic
- melancholy and lugubrious
- melancholy and melancholic
- dismal and lugubrious
- dismal and melancholic
- woeful and lugubrious
- woeful and melancholic
- dejected and lugubrious
- dejected and melancholic
- depressed and lugubrious
- depressed and melancholic
- blue and lugubrious
- blue and melancholic
Both words in one sentence
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In Nausea, Antoine the lugubrious, Woobie, protagonist laments his own infuriating hopeless extreme melancholic and pessimistic take upon the world and is viewed via the contrast of other people's happiness.
Source: Crapsack Only by Comparison
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