lugubrious
loo-GOO-bree-usadjMeaning mournful, often in an exaggerated way
Memory hook lu-GOO-brious: a howl as slow as GOO. Every time the car pulls away, Biscuit the hound lets out a howl as slow and droopy as goo: “Aroooooo.” It is over the top, and it is lugubrious.
The hound gave a lugubrious howl whenever the family left the house.
In context The actor played the old butler in a lugubrious voice so slow and gloomy that the audience, instead of crying, burst out laughing.
Similar mournful, doleful, gloomy, sorrowful
Opposite cheerful, merry, upbeat
From Latin lugubris, “mournful,” from lugere, “to mourn.”