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lugubrious |
(adj): excessively mournful
(adj): vs. joyful) -- (experiencing or marked by or expressing sorrow especially that associated with irreparable loss
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The next planet was inhabited by a tippler. This was a very short visit, but it plunged the little prince into deep dejection.
"What are you doing there?" he said to the tippler, whom he found settled down in silence before a collection of empty bottles and also a collection of full bottles.
I am drinking," replied the tippler, with a lugubrious air.
"Why are you drinking?" demanded the little prince.
"So that I may forget," replied the tippler.
"Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who already was sorry for him.
"Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head.
"Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him.
"Ashamed of drinking!" The tippler brought his speech to an end, and shut himself up in an impregnable silence.
And the little prince went away, puzzled.
"The grown-ups are certainly very, very odd," he said to himself, as he continued on his journey.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
dbmag9 - I LOVE your comment. I will never think of lugubrious the same way, which is the point, right?
There. Now you're even. Unless.... *mwwahaha*
I love lugubrious dog faces. And I would love your dog's. (seven)
That's five. Oh, wait--that's six, if I say "chained_bear's dog."
Well, I'm going to talk about my dog so she'll have seven as well. My dog is a hound dog. She has a lugubrious expression, even when she's happy.
OK, now he has seven.
That your dog deserves two comments? Well, doesn't every dog? :-)
c_b, spaniel sounds all spangly to me.
... oh... What were you saying?
I didn't say my dog looks lugubrious!
I think Cocker spaniels do look kind of mournful. Not as mournful as, say, Bassett hounds (mine is not a Bassett though).
Does anyone else think spaniel is a good-mouthfeel word?
Really? I wouldn't have thought it possible for an English cocker spaniel to look lugubrious. :-)
My dog, an English cocker spaniel, would deserve two comments as well.
Because your dog is especially lugubrious? :-)
Why did I say the same thing twice?
This is the exact word to describe my dog's expression.
"(He lifts his mutilated ashen face moonwards and bays lugubriously.)"
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
Lugubrious describes, at any given moment, the facial expression of my hound dog.
Your mind oozes glumness. What word could better describe your emotion?