\lu-GOO-bree-us; -GYOO-\, adjective: Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woeful; pitiable; gloomy; dismal; as, "a whining tone and a lugubrious look "
If you say that someone or something is lugubrious, you mean that they are sad rather than lively or cheerful. a tall, thin man with a long and lugubrious face He plays some passages so slowly that they become lugubrious. = melancholy + lugubriously lu·gu·bri·ous·ly The dog gazed at us lugubriously for a few minutes. very sad and serious - sometimes used humorously = melancholy, morose morose (lugubris, from lugere )