Slaty vs Somber - What's the difference?
slaty | somber |
Resembling the mineral slate.
* 1933-03 , Clark Ashton Smith, , Weird Tales :
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.
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As adjectives the difference between slaty and somber
is that slaty is resembling the mineral slate while somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim.As a verb somber is
.slaty
English
Adjective
(er)- Their faces and hands were yellow as saffron; their small and slaty eyes were set obliquely beneath lashless lids; and their thin lips, which smiled eternally, were crooked. as the blades of scimitars.
