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Meanings of lugubriousness in English

Portuguese
tristeza

The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness.

tristeza
Synonyms
Examples for "sadness"
Examples for "sadness"
1
Balancing sadness with hope is a real challenge, but it is possible.
Independent.ie
2
Yeats clearly views the present state of the world with some sadness.
The Irish Times
3
With great sadness and anger, I now believe him to be right.
The Guardian
4
The company sees millions of queries every year around stress or sadness.
Wired
5
She sensed the anger and sadness here; she still felt the violence.
Haunted
1
Though some think the gloominess may be largely baked into stock prices.
Reuters
2
I met Juba before dawn in the torch-lit gloominess of the stables.
Cleopatra's Moon
3
That Edward Beverley had fits of gloominess and impatience is not surprising.
The Children of the New Forest
4
One of his favourite jokes played on a life-long reputation for gloominess.
The Irish Times
5
It must not be supposed that Mr Cupples' gloominess arose from anxiety.
Sunk at Sea
Usage of lugubriousness in English
1
This, combined with an unwonted lugubriousness of visage, made Daniel's aspect somewhat comical.
Demos
2
Believe me, I thirst for this knack of lugubriousness.
The Young Seigneur / Or, Nation-Making
3
Carl's face lost its lugubriousness in a broad grin.
The Plastic Age
4
The big spectacles, the half-benign, half-disapproving face, the slightly angelic but ironic mouth, the lugubriousness.
Kalooki Nights
5
Now that there's no dirt to dish on Lane's sexuality, critics pick on his perceived lugubriousness.
The Guardian
6
Perhaps the external signs are only the last stand of a lugubriousness driven out by overwhelming forces of internal joy.
Over the Pass
7
He behaves well to poor people, and the virtue of that is worth more than the lugubriousness or eloquence of many homilies.
Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregation...
8
The waiter, whose countenance had assumed a fitting lugubriousness in accordance with what he imagined were my feelings, brightened up immediately as he replied eagerly:
Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
9
"Yes," answered the younger man with the proper lugubriousness of youth, "but it all comes to an end."
First and Last
Translations for lugubriousness
Portuguese
tristeza
Lugubriousness through the time