Lugubriously
Lugubriously adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: 18th-century gravestones typically have inscriptions in which the brevity of life and the certainty of death are lugubriously noted
Painfully and lugubriously are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Painfully" instead an adverb "Lugubriously".
Nearby Word: lugubrious
Painfully
Painfully adverb - With feelings of bitterness or grief.
Usage example: painfully she recounted the years of physical abuse she had received at his hands
Lugubriously and painfully are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Lugubriously" instead an adverb "Painfully".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- hard and lugubriously
- hard and painfully
- hardly and lugubriously
- hardly and painfully
- harshly and lugubriously
- harshly and painfully
- cruelly and lugubriously
- cruelly and painfully
- severely and lugubriously
- severely and painfully
- agonizingly and lugubriously
- agonizingly and painfully
- bitterly and lugubriously
- bitterly and painfully
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