lugubriousness
Deep, heavy sadness
Lugubriousness is the quality of being mournful or gloomy to an exaggerated degree.
The word carries a hint of theatricality—grief that seems performed or overdone: The lugubriousness of his expression suggested he was auditioning for a tragedy.
It's more often used with wry detachment than sincere sympathy.
Subdued, lasting sadness
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- mournfulnessQuality of deep grief
woefulness · forlornness · heaviness · pensiveness · wistfulness · dejection · desolation · wretchedness
Grave, subdued quality
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
- sepulchralRelating to burial chambers
elegiac · gothic · dirge · requiem · maudlin · bathetic · overwrought · theatrical
State following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- funeralService honoring the dead
wake · shiva · condolences · memorial · dirge · threnody · elegy · weeping
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
- gothicDark, mysterious aesthetic
romanticism · Byronic · Dostoyevsky · tragedian · Morrissey · pathos · bathos · hand-wringing
melancholy
Subdued, lasting sadness
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- gloomPervasive dimness or dejection
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
mournfulness · woefulness · forlornness · heaviness · pensiveness · wistfulness · dejection · desolation · wretchedness · disconsolateness
sombreness
Grave, subdued quality
- bleaknessQuality of being dreary
- drearinessState of dispiriting dullness
- funerealGloomily solemn in manner
sepulchral · elegiac · gothic · dirge · requiem · maudlin · bathetic · overwrought · theatrical · melodramatic
bereavement
State following loss
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- keeningVocal mourning for dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
funeral · wake · shiva · condolences · memorial · dirge · threnody · elegy · weeping · wailing
Eeyore
- HamletDanish prince's revenge tragedy
- PoeAmerican gothic writer's surname
- DickensianGrimly poor, socially unjust
gothic · romanticism · Byronic · Dostoyevsky · tragedian · Morrissey · pathos · bathos · hand-wringing · overwrought
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
lugubriousnesscheerfulness
State of bright spirits
gaiety · joviality · merriment · joyfulness · hilarity