lugubrious
adjectiveHow many syllables in lugubrious?
There are 4 syllables in the word lugubrious.How to pronounce lugubrious:
Definition of lugubrious:
- lugubrious (adjective):
- mournful
- mournful or gloomy
- excessively mournful.
- exaggeratedly or affectedly (see affected entry 2 sense 1a) mournful
Synonyms for lugubrious:
black
bleak
blue
cheerless
chill
cloudy
cold
comfortless
dark
darkening
depressed
depressing
depressive
desolate
dire
dirgelike
disconsolate
dismal
doleful
drear
dreary
dreich
elegiac
elegiacal
forlorn
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Antonyms for lugubrious:
above
advantageous
agreeable
airy
alluring
amiable
amusing
animated
appealing
as happy as a sandboy
as happy as larry
as pleased as punch
assured
at ease
auspicious
back-slapping
backslapping
beaming
beatific
beside oneself with joy
blessed
blissed out
blissful
blithe
blithesome
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- lamentation
- contrarily
- overrated
- edacity
- compunctious
- clever-clever
- belletristic
- wishy-washy
- Kozakura
- non sequitur
- equivocal
- circumspectly
- acclimatize
- hyperactive
- ignorable
- antisocial
- previously
- acoustician
- interwoven
- nomenclature
- dubiety
- Ashwathama
- verbosity
- unconfident
- atticism
- excogitate
- passivism
- pestilential
- delectation
- mannerism
- congruity
- elegiac
- overbearing
- emasculate
- desperacy
- onesimus
- beautifully
- quintessential
- affectious
- charismatic
- passionate
- melismatic
- Bodhisattva
- open dating
- examinee
- indignantly
- knowledgeably
- belligerent
- balaclava
- acquiescence
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