Somber vs Emotional - What's the difference?
somber | emotional |
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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Of or relating to the emotions.
Characterised by emotion.
Determined by emotion rather than reason.
Appealing to or arousing emotion.
Easily affected by emotion.
Readily displaying emotion.
As adjectives the difference between somber and emotional
is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while emotional is of or relating to the emotions.As a verb somber
is .somber
English
Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English) sombreAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* melancholy, unhappy, sadReferences
Anagrams
* ----emotional
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Adjective
(en adjective)- emotional crisis
- emotional decision
- emotional speech
- She’s an emotional person.
- emotional greeting