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A bereaved person is someone whose close friend or relative has recently died.
The adjective blithe indicates that someone does something casually or in a carefree fashion without much concern for the end result; as a result, they are happy and lighthearted.
Someone in a buoyant mood is in good spirits.
When you cavort, you jump and dance around in a playful, excited, or physically lively way.
Someone who is crestfallen is severely disappointed, sad, or depressed.
A dirge is a slow and sad piece of music often performed at funerals.
Something that is dolorous, such as music or news, causes mental pain and sorrow because it itself is full of grief and sorrow.
Someone who is dour is serious, stubborn, and unfriendly; they can also be gloomy.
Weather that is dreary tends to be depressing and gloomy; a situation or person that is dreary tends to be boring or uninteresting.
When something is droll, it is humorous in an odd way.
Someone who is ebullient is filled with enthusiasm, very happy, and extremely excited about something.
When you are ecstatic about something, you are overjoyed or extremely happy about it.
An effervescent individual is lively, very happy, and enthusiastic.
When you become elated about something, you become very happy, overjoyed, or extremely delighted.
An elegy is a poem or other piece of writing expressing sadness; it is often about someone who has died.
A state of euphoria is one of extreme happiness or overwhelming joy.
If you exult, you show great pleasure and excitement, especially about something you have achieved.
If someone gambols, they run, jump, and play like a young child or animal.
If someone is impassive, they are not showing any emotion.
Someone who is inconsolable has been so devastated by a terrible event that no one can help them feel better about it.
Someone who is jovial is in a good humor, lighthearted, and jolly.
When you are feeling jubilant, you are very happy or highly joyful about something.
If someone is lachrymose, they tend to cry often; if something, such as a song, is lachrymose, it tends to cause tears because it is so sad.
If you are melancholy, you look and feel sad.
Someone who is morose is unhappy, bad-tempered, and unwilling to talk very much.
If you are oblivious to something that is happening, you do not notice it.
A plaintive sound or voice expresses sadness.
Plangent sounds are loud and tend to suggest sadness.
Someone who is saturnine is looking miserable and sad, sometimes in a threatening or unfriendly way.
A stoic person does not show their emotions and does not complain when bad things happen to them.
Someone who is woebegone is very sad and filled with grief.
Adj.
lugubrious
loo-GOO-bree-uhs
Context
The music at the memorial service for our neighbor Ned was so lugubrious or sad that mourners had tears in their eyes. Although funeral services are often emotionally difficult, the heartfelt remembrances of Ned’s friends and family made us all so full of woe or so lugubrious that we could not listen without weeping. The death of a loved one is always a sorrowful event, but I thought that this service was particularly gloomy and lugubrious.
Say Lugubrious Doesn't just slowly saying the word LOOGOO BREE US make you feel GLOOmy?
Examples
I'm afraid that the act of writing is so scary and anxiety-filled that I never laugh at all. In fact, when people tell me that such and such a scene or story is comical, I tend to gape. I did not intend comedy—ever, as far as I know. It's probably all a mistake. I am essentially a lugubrious writer. Ha ha!
— Cynthia Ozick, American writer
Not a single story works tonight as the episode lurches between forced attempts at humor and dramatic scenes that are lugubrious when not ridiculous.
—
USA Today
The story is too slender for its two-hour running time, and the pace is lugubrious, as though everyone in front and behind the camera were depressed.
—
San Francisco Chronicle
Though some may have been chased away by the lugubrious melodies and lackluster staging, others no doubt settled on an escape route after realizing they'd been, sort of, er, hoodwinked. Here's a thought: Why not just call an opera an opera?
—
The Washington Post
