Darkened vs Sombre - What's the difference?
darkened | sombre | Related terms |
(darken)
To make dark or darker by reducing light.
* Bible, Exodus x. 15
To become dark or darker (having less light).
To make dark or darker in colour.
To become dark or darker in colour.
To render gloomy, darker in mood
* Shakespeare
To become gloomy, darker in mood
To blind, impair eyesight
* Bible, Rom xi. 10
To be blinded, loose clear vision
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2
* Francis Bacon
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
* Shakespeare
Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
Darkened is a related term of sombre.
As verbs the difference between darkened and sombre
is that darkened is (darken) while sombre is .darkened
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*darken
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Verb
(en verb)- They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .
- With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.
- Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.
- I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.
Conjugation
(en-conj-simple)Derived terms
* darkener * darken someone's doorSynonyms
* blackenAnagrams
* * * * * English ergative verbssombre
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Alternative forms
* (US ) somberAdjective
(er)- The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
- a sombre situation
