Sombre vs Discouraging - What's the difference?
sombre | discouraging | Related terms |
Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
that causes discouragement
* 1876 Brewster Higley - A Home on the Range
* Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day
discouragement
* Lydia Ann Barclay
Sombre is a related term of discouraging.
As verbs the difference between sombre and discouraging
is that sombre is while discouraging is .As an adjective discouraging is
that causes discouragement.As a noun discouraging is
discouragement.sombre
English
Alternative forms
* (US ) somberAdjective
(er)- The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
- a sombre situation
Synonyms
* melancholy * dreary * dire * dismalNoun
(-)Anagrams
* ----discouraging
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(head)Synonyms
* See alsoNoun
(en noun)- But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings , and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles