New word of the day (and other delightful linguistic discoveries)

Chernabog · 10-05-2007, 01:37 PM

lugubrious

that's my word of the day, I just read it in a movie review!

it is an adjective that means: mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.

I thought it had something do do with lubrication, but alas... it's still a cool word tho!!!

Just FYI something funny about LoT - I tried doing a search for this thread under "word of the day" and it said "of" "the" and "day" were too common and/or short to do a search for. So it just gave me every thread with the word "word" in it.. grrrr :P

10-05-2007, 01:37 PM	#24
Chernabog Biophage Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: The Moon Posts: 2,679	lugubrious that's my word of the day, I just read it in a movie review! it is an adjective that means: mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love. I thought it had something do do with lubrication, but alas... it's still a cool word tho!!! Just FYI something funny about LoT - I tried doing a search for this thread under "word of the day" and it said "of" "the" and "day" were too common and/or short to do a search for. So it just gave me every thread with the word "word" in it.. grrrr :P __________________ And they say back then our universe Was a coal black egg Until the god inside Burst out and from its shattered shell He made what became the world we know ~ Bjork (Cosmogony)
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