Definition of Sombre

1. Adjective. Lacking brightness or color; dull. "Children in somber brown clothes"

Exact synonyms: Drab, Sober, Somber
Similar to: Colorless, Colourless
Derivative terms: Somberness, Sombreness

2. Adjective. Grave or even gloomy in character. "A somber mood"
Exact synonyms: Melancholy, Somber
Similar to: Cheerless, Depressing, Uncheerful
Derivative terms: Somberness, Somberness, Sombreness, Sombreness

Definition of Sombre

1. Adjective. Dark; gloomy. ¹

2. Adjective. Dull or dark in colour. ¹

3. Adjective. Melancholy; dismal. ¹

4. Adjective. Grave. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sombre

1. somber [adj] : SOMBRELY [adv] - See also: somber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sombre

somatotypes
somatotypology
somatrem
somatroph
somatrophs
somatropin
somber
sombered
somberer
somberest
sombering
somberly
somberness
sombernesses
sombers
sombre (current term)
sombred
sombrely
sombreness
sombrer
sombrero
sombreros
sombres
sombrest
sombring
sombrous
somdel
somdomites
some

Literary usage of Sombre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Charles Christopher Pepys Cottenham, Thomas Wilde Truro, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1871)
"petition presented on the 29th January as the act of Mr. Dyce sombre, whose former petition for the same purpose was, with his own concurrence, ..."

2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"In gloomy arch above them spread, The clouded heaven lowered bloody red; Beneath in sombre light the flood gSt. Appeared to roll in waves of blood. ..."

3. Southern Literary Messenger (1838)
"... especially the rich crimson deer-berry, which was very abundant. There is a sombre grandeur in the aspect of this dark and gloomy swamp ..."

4. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"The splendid honours which have been accumulated upon Confucius since his death must not disguise from us the sombre sadness of his final parting. ..."

5. Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1900)
"Treatment of Jeter—Violent Changes—Types of Evil—Fantastic Horrors. Insanity.—X. Meditations upon Death.—XI. sombre Philo- • of Life—Melancholy—Religious ..."

6. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"40 [134]) to have been compared to Nicias and even preferred to him by some. He was more sombre in his colouring than Nicias, yet more pleasing. ..."

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