Difference between Sorrowful and Lugubrious

SORROWFUL vs LUGUBRIOUS: ADJECTIVE

Feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow. : sad.
Causing sorrow.
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.

Excessively mournful
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable.
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.

Synonyms Sorrowful, melancholy, doleful.
Exciting mournful feelings; pitiful; dismal; depressing: as, a lugubrious spectacle or event.
Characterized by or expressing mourning or sorrow; mournful; doleful; funereal; dejected: as, lugubrious wailing; a lugubrious look or voice.

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Dolorous, Rueful, Plangent, Wistful, Saturnine, Lachrymose, Elegiac, Funereal, Ponderous, Melancholic, Morose, Mournful, Doleful, Melancholy, Sorrowful

Mourning, Heartbroken, Weeping, Tearful, Brokenhearted, Dolorous, Grieving, Anguished, Plaintive, Sorrowing, Sad, Elegiac, Heartbreaking, Heartrending, Mournful

Dolorous, Rueful, Plangent, Wistful, Saturnine, Lachrymose, Elegiac, Funereal, Ponderous, Melancholic, Morose, Mournful, Doleful, Melancholy, Sorrowful

It was so sorrowful that my eyes teared up.
John the Divine are not so sorrowful as yesterday.
When he spoke his voice was resigned and sorrowful.
Patrons modulate dollar from sorrowful walk of American drugs.
He would always look like a sorrowful white boy.
It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.
To this sorrowful appeal Moses answers with encouragement.
Francis Hospital, Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, Rev.
It is sorrowful only for those left behind.
Parting is sorrowful but to choose the other over God is more sorrowful and has eternal consequences.

Jourdain dismisses this air as too lugubrious, and suggests instead a ridiculous popular ditty, which he then bleats out in a raucous bray.
On its own island in a lonely Stretch of Seine, the cemetery has a kind of lugubrious beauty.
At the risk of sounding lugubrious, God has graciously rebuked me through the words of Monod.
Prominent Republicans received lugubrious letters containing pictures of coffins, and acts of violence were not wanting.
Impressed by the lugubrious scene, Aguinaldo yielded, and the next day peace negotiations were opened.
Butterfly for the ages in a Butterfly marred by casting ineptness and lugubrious conducting.
Genoa, situated in a lugubrious valley, at the foot of the hill St.
The result is a stately, lugubrious mess that feels at odds with such an eccentric adventure.".
These lugubrious sounds had a singular effect upon his spirit.
The whole effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow.