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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 'Somber'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Somber" Quotes from Famous Books

... She passed through a somber little hall, then found herself in a very large room draped with ivory colored cretonne patterned with butterflies in vivid shades. The furniture was ivory colored wood, and the carpet gray, with clusters of wild flowers, primrose, poppies, ...

— Nobody's Girl - (En Famille) • Hector Malot

... shortsightedly or conceitedly attributed to the arbitrary initiative of this or that thinker, this or that scientist. We must rather regard it as a natural product, a necessary phenomenon, in the development of that sad and somber department of science which deals with the disease of crime. It is this plague of crime which forms such a gloomy and painful contrast with the splendor of present-day civilization. The 19th century has won a great victory over mortality ...

— The Positive School of Criminology - Three Lectures Given at the University of Naples, Italy on April 22, 23 and 24, 1901 • Enrico Ferri

... a gala-night when we rattle down the rough streets, and have pointed out to us the somber government buildings. The Halifax Club House is a blaze of light, for the Governor-General is being received there, and workmen are still busy decorating the Provincial Building for the great ball. The city is indeed pervaded by his lordship, and we regret that we cannot see it in its normal condition ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... transformation. A moment before his face—lined, brooding, somber, oddly pale for that country of universal tan—looked almost old. At least one would have felt it the face of a man who had recently endured a great deal of mental or physical suffering. Now, as he turned with an unconscious straightening of broad shoulders and ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

... had been a good deal of snow, and, except where it was brushed away from the foot-path, it lay white and unbroken, the black trunks of the trees among it looking like pillars of ebony in the ivory-paved courts of a temple. Up in the sky winter was passing with all his somber train, the clouds flying rapidly in great grotesque masses, and seeming to touch the tops of the trees like ...

— The Hallam Succession • Amelia Edith Barr

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