Sombre vs Merciless - What's the difference?
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Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
As adjectives the difference between sombre and merciless
is that sombre is dark; gloomy while merciless is showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.As a noun sombre
is gloom; obscurity; duskiness.As a verb sombre
is to make sombre or dark; to make shady.sombre
English
Alternative forms
* (US ) somberAdjective
(er)- The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
- a sombre situation