Sombre vs Hopeless - What's the difference?
sombre | hopeless | Related terms |
Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
* (William Shakespeare)
*, chapter=15
, title= Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
Without talent, not skilled
Sombre is a related term of hopeless.
As a verb sombre
is .As an adjective hopeless is
without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.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
* ----hopeless
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
- He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.