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Definition of Somber
1. Adjective. Lacking brightness or color; dull. "Children in somber brown clothes"
Similar to: Colorless, Colourless
Derivative terms: Somberness, Sombreness
2. Adjective. Grave or even gloomy in character. "A somber mood"
Similar to: Cheerless, Depressing, Uncheerful
Derivative terms: Somberness, Somberness, Sombreness, Sombreness
Definition of Somber
1. a. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.
2. v. t. To make somber, or dark; to make shady.
3. n. Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.
Definition of Somber
1. Adjective. Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim. ¹
2. Adjective. Dark, lacking color or brightness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Somber
1. gloomy [adj] : SOMBERLY [adv] - See also: gloomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somber
Literary usage of Somber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... and somber color Few "self- starters " story, with unpainted roof of corrugated
iron, for this last means clean rainwater, none of which can be wasted. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"... in our last number, entitled, " The Three somber Young Gentlemen and the Three
Pretty Girls." Mr. Brooks has written a whole series of similar plays, ..."
3. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1897)
"... from its dark and somber depths.1 While this talk was going on in the camp,
thefts, robberies and depredations of all kinds were going on in the field. ..."
4. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1909)
"Literature, which always reflects life, presented the somber tone of the age and
was in large part religious. The "King James Version of the Bible was ..."
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