Sombre

Quick meaning: Sombre is an adjective meaning Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.

Meaning

Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.

More Meanings

1. Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
2. Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
3. Grave; extremely serious.
4. To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
5. (obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.

Example Sentences

a sombre situation

The dinner was silent and sombre; happily it was also short.

A sombre mood, very sombre in fact, thought Hennessey, as he stood against the wall observing the procedure for the police. He had not known a mood more sombre to have previously descended on the room.

It was a wonder that he had not been a victim of the ferocious and summary executions which marked the course of that tyranny; for Guzman had ruled the country with the sombre imbecility of political fanaticism.

Word Forms

• sombrer
• sombrest
• somber
• sombres
• sombring
• sombred

Synonyms for sombre

Depending on context, synonyms include bleak, dreary, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include somber, cheerless, drab, colourless, sober, colorless.

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