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Mawkish vs Lugubrious - What's the difference?

mawkish | lugubrious |

As adjectives the difference between mawkish and lugubrious

is that mawkish is feeling sick, queasy while lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

mawkish

English

Alternative forms

* maukish (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling sick, queasy.
  • (archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
  • Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
  • * 2014 August 11, , " Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
    • Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.

    Antonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) rational

    Synonyms

    * (excessively or falsely sentimental) cutesy, schmaltzy

    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.