Lugubrious vs Calamitous - What's the difference?
lugubrious | calamitous | Related terms |
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.
:The city was struck by a calamitous cyclone.
Lugubrious is a related term of calamitous.
As adjectives the difference between lugubrious and calamitous
is that lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree while calamitous is concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.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.