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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-441/
- Published: 2025-10-23T17:15:39.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-23T17:15:38.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

lugubrious (adjective):

1: mournful, especially : exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful  
2: dismal

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lugubrious?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Everybody hurts, as the classic R.E.M. song goes, and when your day is long and the night is yours alone, lugubrious is a perfect word for describing such sorrowful feelings, or that which inspires them (a lugubrious song, perhaps). That said, if lugubrious strikes you as a tad unusual, no, no, no, you’re not alone. Lugubrious is the sole surviving English offspring of the Latin verb lugēre, meaning “to mourn.” Its closest kin, luctual, an adjective meaning “sad” or “sorrowful,” was laid to rest centuries ago.

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