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Lubricious vs Lugubrious - What's the difference?

lubricious | lugubrious |

As adjectives the difference between lubricious and lugubrious

is that lubricious is smooth and glassy; slippery while lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

lubricious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • smooth and glassy; slippery
  • lewd, wanton, salacious or lecherous

    • 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.