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adjective

Sombre, Somber adj.

Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. "The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short."

noun

Sombre, Somber n. Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. (Obs.)

verb

Sombre, Somber v. t. To make somber, or dark; to make shady. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Sombre'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sombre" Quotes from Famous Books

... the lonely New England life, with its religious theories as sombre as its forests, its rigid notions of duty as difficult to make bloom into sweetness and beauty as the stony soil, would have been unendurable if they had not been touched with the ideal created by the poet. There was in creed and purpose the ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... beatin' it," she said with a sombre frown. She was plainly in no sunny mood. "'f all th' hunk jobs I was ever on, this is th' hunkest. I'm told off 't watch a gang of crooks, and after I've lost a night's sleep doing it, it turns out 't's a nice, jolly fam'ly party!" ...

— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... the place of doom, my blood turned to tears by its sights, and my spirit attuned to sorrow, pity, and despair, I had happened in some glade upon a merry party of roisterers. I sat in silence until Edith began to rally me upon my sombre looks, What ailed me? The others presently joined in the playful assault, and I became a target for quips and jests. Where had I been, and what had I seen to make such a dull ...

— Looking Backward - 2000-1887 • Edward Bellamy

... sallow countenance of the sick woman stood out like a figure of Christ imperfectly gilded and fixed upon a cross of tarnished silver. The flickering rays shed by the blue flames of a crackling fire were therefore the sole light of this sombre chamber, where the denouement of a drama was just ending. A log suddenly rolled from the fire onto the floor, as if presaging some catastrophe. At the sound of it the sick woman quickly rose to a sitting posture. She opened ...

— The Physiology of Marriage, Part I. • Honore de Balzac

... peered down into the shadows. A soft murmur of rushing water came up. How like strange distant voices calling him to go back or go on, or warning him, or giving mystic portent of something that would happen to him there! A cold chill crept over him and he seemed enveloped in a sombre menace of the future. But he shook it off. He had many battles to fight, not the least of ...

— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

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