sombre English

Meaning sombre meaning

What does sombre mean?

sombre

— adjective (= somber) grave or even gloomy in character solemn and mournful music a suit of somber black a somber mood

— adjective (= drab, sober, somber) lacking brightness or color; dull drab faded curtains sober Puritan grey children in somber brown clothes

Synonyms sombre synonyms

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somber

gloomy

dark

melancholy

dismal

dim

sober

obscure

lugubrious

dreary

solemn

sad

murky

mournful

dull

drab

dingy

blue

bleak

black

woebegone

wistful

unconsolable

tragical

tragic

tenebrous

sunless

sullen

sulky

shady

serious

saturnine

sable

recondite

opaque

no-nonsense

murk

mirky

mirk

melancholic

major

joyless

heavy

heartsick

gross

grim

grievous

grief-stricken

grave

glooming

Examples sombre examples

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A sombre emotional state.

Captain, I am neither brooding nor sombre.

Sombre they look their muted colours of a tone with the bleak heathland that is our kingdom.

Useless, it's still the South against the North, the sombre against the dirty, the Parisians against the Arabs.

What do you think the Greeks would think of this rather sombre attire?

One wild and vivid, the other sombre and geometric.

Be sombre.

So, you got your sombre on, Will.

You all stand around and look sombre.

Cos. cos it's sombre?

That's a sombre outlook for the happily-married, poster boy.

There were sombre scenes in North London as mourners gathered for the funeral of Sonia Baker.

Shouldn't you be a little more sombre for your poor scammed girlfriend?

Let us celebrate in our customary sombre and measured way.

We are so accustomed to the wonderful character actor Henry Travers being cast as a whimsical, bemused benign person, often slightly eccentric, that it's curious here to see him playing seemingly straight and sombre.

Sombre forebodings possessed her.

Brooding, Mr. Spock. A sombre emotional state.

I shall be aided by the sound of sombre music played on gramophone records and also by the chanting of laments by the men of Q Division.

A sombre buffoon.

I mean. what do you think the Greeks'd think of this rather sombre attire?

A sombre, serious current, flowing not from life. but from mere existence.

Soon, they discover that their guide's sombre expression only brightens at the sound of a bell, and not just any bell.

When she is laughing, I am sombre.

The sombre clouds of jealousy which hid you from me for so long are banished by my ardent love.

Rome: she-wolf and vestal virgin, noblewoman and fishwife, sombre and festive.

The Tetrarch has a sombre aspect.

Yes; he has a sombre aspect.

Not only did he stain his conscience with the blood of three promising young man, not only did he use the innocence of our children as a means towards his sombre schemes.

The tone seems more sombre.

See, their boat has come to the sombre shore.

I love the way you get all sombre when you describe a flood or a murder.

I chose a plain, rather sombre cardigan and then transferred fibres from Scott's jumper onto it to make it appear he'd dragged me across the floor.