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Ill-boding vs Lugubrious - What's the difference?

ill-boding | lugubrious | Related terms |

Ill-boding is a related term of lugubrious.


As adjectives the difference between ill-boding and lugubrious

is that ill-boding is which bodes evil, spelling bad things while lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

ill-boding

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • which bodes evil, spelling bad things

    • Synonyms

    * inauspicious

    Antonyms

    * auspicious

    Related terms

    * ill-fated

    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.