Lugubrious vs Somber - What's the difference?
lugubrious | somber |
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
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, title=Fierce People
, passage=My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus .}}
Dark, lacking color or brightness.
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As adjectives the difference between lugubrious and somber
is that lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree while somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.As a verb somber is
alternative form of lang=en.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.
