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lúgubre — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • dark adj Having little or no light.
  • dismal adjective Gloomy, dreary, and depressing.
  • doleful adj Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dour adjective Stern, unfriendly, and serious in manner or expression.
  • gloomy adj Dark and dim, especially in a way that feels depressing.
  • grim adj Bleak, gloomy, or discouraging.
  • lugubrious adj Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • macabre adj Disturbingly focused on death, or gruesome and horrifying to look at.

Senses

lúgubre is used for these senses in English:

  • dark Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malevolent, malign.
  • dismal Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
  • doleful Filled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
  • dour Expressing gloom or melancholy.
  • gloomy Suffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
  • grim Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  • lugubrious Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • macabre Ghastly, shocking, terrifying.

dark — full definition

  1. adj Having little or no light.
  2. adj Deep or intense in shade rather than light and bright.
  3. adj Secretive, sinister, or morally troubling.
  4. noun The absence of light; nightfall.

dismal — full definition

  1. adjective Gloomy, dreary, and depressing.
  2. adjective Very poor in quality or performance.

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