Salubrious vs. Lugubrious — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Salubrious and Lugubrious
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Definitions
Salubrious➦
Health-giving; healthy
Odours of far less salubrious origin
Lugubrious➦
Looking or sounding sad and dismal
His face looked even more lugubrious than usual
Salubrious➦
Conducive or favorable to health or well-being.
Lugubrious➦
Mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.
Salubrious➦
Promoting health or well-being; wholesome, especially relating to food or air.
Lugubrious➦
Gloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
His client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words.
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Salubrious➦
Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as, salubrious air, water, or climate.
Lugubrious➦
Mournful; indicating sorrow, often ridiculously or feignedly; doleful; woful; pitiable; as, a whining tone and a lugubrious look.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrious emblems of mortality.
Salubrious➦
Promoting health; healthful;
A healthy diet
Clean healthy air
Plenty of healthy sleep
Healthy and normal outlets for youthful energy
The salubrious mountain air and water
Carrots are good for you
Lugubrious➦
Excessively mournful
Salubrious➦
Favorable to health of mind or body;
Not the most salubrious campsite
One of the less salubrious suburbs