Visual Dictionary: Lugubrious
Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.
Hey, little Timmy! Don’t be so lugubrious.
Yep, lugubrious means sad, dismal, or mournful. Some near-synonyms are doleful, morose, and saturnine.
If Timmy were mostly thoughtful, but in a somewhat sad way, he’d be pensive.
If he were pitiable, or expressing pity for someone else, he’d be rueful.
Let’s try a sample problem.
SAD : LUGUBRIOUS ::
A. APATHETIC : DISINTERESTED
B. PLEASED : EBULLIENT
C. DISTRESSED : SARDONIC
D. JOCULAR : CRUEL
E. INTREPID : CRAVEN
Choose your own answer, then click “more.”
A good strategy for an Analogies problem is to write your own relationship sentence. SAD is a mild form of LUGUBRIOUS, or 1 is a mild form of 2.
A. These two words aren’t related. APATHETIC would be related to UNinterested, but DISinterested means unbiased.
B. EBULLIENT means extremely enthusiastic. This is our answer.
C. These two words aren’t related.
D. These two words aren’t related.
E. These two words are antonyms.
The answer is B.