Word of the Day - 4/25/2008

Lugubrious

Lugubrious means mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner.

When Jesus was interrogated as to why his disciples did not fast, he replied that it would be inappropriate for a bridegroom's attendants to behave lugubriously in his presence. (Matthew 9:15)

And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.” (Matthew 9:15, NASB)