Lugubrious vs Cheerless - What's the difference?
lugubrious | cheerless |
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
As adjectives the difference between lugubrious and cheerless
is that lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree while cheerless is devoid of cheer; gloomy.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.