Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Lugubrious

Lugubrious , adjective

[Latin lugubris, from lugere to mourn; compare Greek lygro`s sad, Sanskrit ruj to break.]

Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality. — Hawthorne