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Dirge vs Lugubrious - What's the difference?

dirge | lugubrious |

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)
  • A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.
  • Synonyms

    * lament, requiem, coronach, threnody, elegy

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    lugubrious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
  • 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.