Lugubrious vs Sorrowful - What's the difference?
lugubrious | sorrowful | Related terms |
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
As adjectives the difference between lugubrious and sorrowful
is that lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree while sorrowful is of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.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.
sorrowful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- sorrowful accident
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.