Lúgubre in english
Dismal
pronunciation: dɪzməl part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: dɪzməl part of speech: adjective
In gestures
lúgubre = gloomy ; grim ; grim-faced ; dreary ; spooky ; spine-tingling ; doleful ; lugubrious ; blackly ; drearily ; doomy ; mournful ; plangent.
Example: In spite of gloomy conditions thoughtful library leaders are saying that opportunities have never been more promising.Example: Anita Schiller's own grim conclusion was that 'These two opposing and often inimical views, when incorporated within reference service, often reduce overall effectiveness'.Example: In the English language, people are described as grim, while in Journalese they are referred to as being 'grim-faced'.Example: The city was considered to be seedy (decayed, littered, grimy, and dreary), crowded, busy, and strongly idiosyncratic (quaint, historic, colorful, and full of 'atmosphere').Example: Records are even being sold with terrifying sounds designed to create a 'spooky' atmosphere at home.Example: This is a spine-tingling collection of real haunted houses and spooky ghost stories.Example: This year will go down as the most depressing doleful Christmas I've ever had.Example: Such epigones seldom present more than a lugubrious rehash and potpourri of their idols.Example: Some possible candidates would definitely include Tom Lehrer, a former Harvard professor who became a song writer of blackly satirical songs.Example: Quite apart from anything else, it is drearily boring, the tedium exacerbated by the grating monotony of Stein's voice.Example: It has been so damn dreary in Pittsburgh as of late, raining just about every day with little or no sunshine, so I've been in a very doomy mood.Example: In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.Example: Around its shrouded summit the regal birds wheeled by the hundreds, their plangent wails and cackles echoing off the black volcanic slopes.more:
» de un modo lúgubre = spookily .
Example: The members of Harvey's family seem almost spookily healthy and perky and nice to each other.