sombre
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
sombre (comparative sombrer, superlative sombrest) (Britain, Canada)
- Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
- 2015, Hermann Kauders, Before The Cock Crows (ISBN 9781326191337), page 9:
- The lady led him into a sombre hallway and disappeared. A moment later the windowless chamber was illuminated by the entry of a heavenly creature emitting a radiance prone to pierce the heart of any youth exposed to it.
- 2015, Hermann Kauders, Before The Cock Crows (ISBN 9781326191337), page 9:
- Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
- 1877, The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight, page 47:
- His tall and slender figure, dressed in sombre black, his hair of that peculiar reddish auburn so rarely seen, his flashing black eyes, in which a fitful fire seemed for ever burning; all combined to give something almost of a demoniac air ...
- 1877, The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight, page 47:
- Melancholy, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
- The dinner was silent and sombre; happily it was also short.
- 2012, Peter Turnbull, Aftermath, Severn House Publishers Ltd (ISBN 9781780101941)
- A sombre mood, very sombre in fact, thought Hennessey, as he stood against the wall observing the procedure for the police. He had not known a mood more sombre to have previously descended on the room.
- Grave; extremely serious.
- a sombre situation
- French: sombre
- German: dunkel, düster, finster, trübe
- Portuguese: escuro, sombrio, lúgubre, soturno
- Russian: мра́чный
- Spanish: sombrío
- French: sombre
- German: matt, stumpf, dunkel, finster, dunkel, trüb, trübe
- Portuguese: escuro, sombrio
- Russian: мра́чный
- Spanish: sombrío
- French: sombre
- German: verhalten, trübe, freudlos, traurig, düster, finster, schwermütig
- Portuguese: sombrio
- Russian: мра́чный
- Spanish: sombrío
- French: sombre
- German: ernst, schwerwiegend
- Russian: непростой
- Spanish: grave
sombre (uncountable)
Verbsombre (sombres, present participle sombring; past and past participle sombred)
- To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
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