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Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.

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  1. a. Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
  2. adj. excessively mournful
  3. Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. Hawthorne. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
  4. Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly;doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems ofmortality. Hawthorne.-- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ly, adv.-- Lu*gu"bri*ous*ness, n.
  5. j:100 s. excessively mournful