What is "somber" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does somber mean in English? Meaning of somber definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "somber" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "somber": lacking brightness or color; dull

Adjective

  • Meaning: lacking brightness or color; dull
  • Example: drab faded curtains sober Puritan grey children in somber brown clothes
  • Synonyms: drab sober somber sombre
  • Similar: colorless colourless
  • Meaning of "somber": grave or even gloomy in character

    Adjective

  • Meaning: grave or even gloomy in character
  • Example: solemn and mournful music a suit of somber black a somber mood
  • Synonyms: melancholy somber sombre
  • Similar: cheerless depressing uncheerful
  • Adjective: Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim. 2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People: My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People: My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.Dark, lacking color or brightness.
  • Synonyms:

    funereal, melancholy, solemn, dull, dark, earnest, gloomy, weighty, sedate, sober, serious, mournful, grim, bleak, black, blue, cloudy, dim, dingy, dire, dismal, doleful, down, drab, dreary, dusky, grave, joyless, lugubrious, murky, no-nonsense, obscure, sepulchral, shadowy, shady, sourpuss, staid, tenebrous, caliginous, dispiriting, depressive, dragged, hurting,

    Antonyms:

    cheerful, joyful, lively, vivacious, encouraging, flippant, trivial, unimportant, excited, happy, funny, light, bright, luminous, hopeful, sunny, unserious,

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