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Definition of Sombre
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 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
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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