Somber vs Foreboding - What's the difference?
somber | foreboding |
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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A sense of evil to come.
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41
An evil omen.
Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.
As adjectives the difference between somber and foreboding
is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while foreboding is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.As verbs the difference between somber and foreboding
is that somber is while foreboding is .As a noun foreboding is
a sense of evil to come.somber
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Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English) sombreAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* melancholy, unhappy, sadReferences
Anagrams
* ----foreboding
English
Alternative forms
* forboding (much less commonly used)Noun
(en noun)- A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.