sad, mournful, gloomy, especially in an exaggerated manner

With little apparent understanding of characterization or of genuine pathos, the author emphasizes plot and exaggerates emotion in his melodramatic, lugubrious novels.

Related English word: lugubriousness,

Latin root words: lugubris, lugubre - mournful, plaintive; lugeo, lugere, luxi, luctus - mourn; lament

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