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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Chiefly British Variant of somber.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. etc. See somber, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Dark; gloomy.
  2. adj. Dull or dark in colour.
  3. adj. Melancholy; dismal.
  4. adj. Grave.
  5. n. obsolete gloom; obscurity; duskiness

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking brightness or color; dull.
  2. adj. grave or even gloomy in character

Etymologies

  1. From French, from Latin sub- + umbra. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “For his picture does remain sombre, since for him the nature of man is wounded, if not corrupted.”

    François Mauriac - Banquet Speech

  • “As we reached the windmill, as though in sombre greeting, the floating mists on the near horizon seemed to part, and there rose from them a dark, jagged tower, one side of it torn away.”

    England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend

  • “Under the working of these thoughts, Mr. Carleton sometimes forgot to talk to his little charge, and would walk for a length of way by her side, wrapped up in sombre musings.”

    Queechy

  • “But several depict Obama alone, his expression sombre, even weary.”

    The Guardian: Barack Obama's down but not out

  • “He recalled the sombre anguish he had surprised in the young girl's eyes, then her comforted glance when her mother smiled at once upon Gorka and Maitland.”

    Cosmopolis — Complete

  • “The mood at yesterday's mostly private meeting between families and Sir John and four members of his committee was described as sombre and quietly emotional.”

    The Daily Star

  • “Who the hell in the media got the idea that the shows were "sombre"?”

    Defending Lilith Fair - Arts & Culture - Macleans.ca

  • “The fact is, the "sombre" message (as it is being officially endorsed) of a jewel encrusted and glorified dynastic ruler is a far cry from the values of humility and humanity that Jesus Christ represents for those of the Abrahamic faiths.”

    Shirin Sadeghi: Ahmadinejad's Alternative to the Queen's Christmas Message

  • “And [fermata symbol over dash] ---- [breath symbol] [slur symbol and" sombre "over the following words] they were sore afraid.”

    Style in Singing

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. melancholy
  1. dreary
  1. dire
  1. dismal

equivalents (5)

Other words for ‘sombre’

  1. colorless
  1. colourless
  1. depressing
  1. cheerless
  1. uncheerful

same context (11)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. gloomy
  2. somber
  1. dim
  2. mournful
  1. dusky
  2. majestic
  1. bleak
  2. awful
  1. lonely
  2. sullen
  1. ominous

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  1. British

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  • yarb Yet the dust advances like a ghost along the road, down the valley plain. The dry turf of the valley-bed gleams like soft skin, sunlit and pinkish ochre, spreading wide between the mountains that seem to emit their own darkness, a dark-blue vapour translucent, sombring them from the humped crests downwards. The many-pleated, noiseless mountains of Mexico.

    - D.H. Lawrence, Market Day, from Mornings in Mexico, 1927 Oct 5, 2008

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