lugubrious

Jun. 5th, 2006 07:08 am
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lugubrious - adj., mournful, gloomy, dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.


From Latin lugere, to mourn. This word always reminds me of the vulture undertaker from Pogo, who spoke in black-bordered copperplate.

---L.
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