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Somber vs Depressing - What's the difference?

somber | depressing |

As adjectives the difference between somber and depressing

is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while depressing is causing depression or sadness.

As verbs the difference between somber and depressing

is that somber is while depressing is .

somber

English

Alternative forms

* (Commonwealth English) sombre

Adjective

(er)
  • Dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2002 , author=Dirk Wittenborn , title=Fierce People , passage=My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus .}}
  • Dark, lacking color or brightness.

    • Synonyms

    * melancholy, unhappy, sad

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • References

    * *

    Anagrams

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    depressing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing depression or sadness.
    • The television news was depressing , so rather than start crying I turned it off.

    Synonyms

    * unpleasant

    Verb

    (head)