It's the Word of the Day for September 21st.

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slash Wondery. That's audible.com.com. UK slash Wondery. That's audible.co.com.ukes-wondery. Today's word is lugubrious, spelled L-U-G-U-B-R-I-O-U-S.

Lugubrious is an adjective. It's a formal word used chiefly to describe something that is very sad,

especially in an exaggerated or insincere way.

The word can also describe something that shows or expresses gloom.

Here's the word used.

In a sentence from Vogue, on opening night, the audience at St. Petersburg's Alex Adrinsky

theater were mystified by the Seagull's neither holy comic nor holy tragic tone,

hissing and heckling throughout, with Chekhov fleeing from the gallery after the second act.

It was only two years later when Konstantin Stanislavsky staged a more lugubrious take on the Seagull at Moscow Art Theatre,

that it came to be recognized as a work of pure genius.

Everybody hurts, as the classic REM 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 lugubrius strikes you as a tad

unusual, no, no, no, you're not alone. Logubrius is the sole surviving English offspring

of the Latin verb lugere, meaning're not alone. Lugubrius is the sole surviving English offspring of the Latin verb

Lugere, meaning to mourn. Its closest kin, luctual, an adjective meaning sad or sorrowful,

was laid to rest centuries ago. With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.