Meaning of SOMBER
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- [adj] grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
- [adj] lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes"
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| | Synonyms: | | cheerless, colorless, colourless, drab, sober, sombre, uncheerful |
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\Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\(?; 277), a. [F. sombre; cf.
Sp. sombra, shade, prob. from LL. subumbrare to put in the
shade; L. sub under + umbra shade. See {Umbrage}.]
1. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a
somber house.
2. Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person;
somber reflections.
The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was
also short. --Beaconsfield.
\Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\, v. t.
To make somber, or dark; to make shady. [R.]
\Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\, n.
Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [Obs.]
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