Dirge vs Lugubrious - What's the difference?
dirge | lugubrious |
A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
As a noun dirge
is a mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.As an adjective lugubrious is
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.dirge
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegyAnagrams
* *lugubrious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The poor lighting and sparse maintenance, plus the rarefied traffic on its wide boulevards, made the effect of Pyongyang on the tourist distinctly lugubrious .
- His client's lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.