Lugubrious vs Pathetic - What's the difference?
lugubrious | pathetic | Related terms |
gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
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(obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Lugubrious is a related term of pathetic.
As adjectives the difference between lugubrious and pathetic
is that lugubrious is gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree while pathetic is arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.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.
pathetic
English
Alternative forms
* pathetick (archaic) * patheticke (obsolete) * pathetique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The old man’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
- You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic .
- You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic .