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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective sombre has 2 senses
- sombre(s = adj.all) drab, sober, somber - lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan grey"; "children in somber brown clothes" Derived form noun sombreness1
- sombre(s = adj.all) melancholy, somber - grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" Derived forms noun sombreness3, noun sombreness2
CIDE DICTIONARY
sombre, a. [F. sombre; cf. Sp. sombra, shade, prob. from LL. subumbrare to put in the shade; L. sub under + umbra shade. See Umbrage.].
- Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house. [1913 Webster]
- Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. [1913 Webster]"The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short." [1913 Webster]
sombre, v. t.
To make somber, or dark; to make shady. [1913 Webster]
sombre, n.
Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sombre, adj. (also US somber)
1 dark, gloomy (a sombre sky).
2 oppressively solemn or sober.
3 dismal, foreboding (a sombre prospect).
1 dark, gloomy (a sombre sky).
2 oppressively solemn or sober.
3 dismal, foreboding (a sombre prospect).
Derivative
sombrely adv. sombreness n.
Etymology
F sombre f. OF sombre (n.) ult. f. L SUB- + umbra shade
THESAURUS
sombre
black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darkling, darksome, depressed, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dolorous, dreary, dull, dusky, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, grave, grey, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, joyless, leaden, lowering, lugubrious, melancholic, melancholy, morbid, morose, mournful, murky, overcast, sad, sedate, serious, shadowy, sober, solemn, staid, subfusc, unhappy
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