A Word A Day -- lugubrious 2
September 09, 2012 Word of the Day lugubrious \loo-GOO-bree-us\ DEFINITION adjective 1 : mournful; especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful 2 : dismal EXAMPLES Katie's friends guessed immediately from her lugubrious expression that she and her boyfriend had broken up. "Then beneath that lugubrious lament…