Somber vs Mirthless - What's the difference?
somber | mirthless |
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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Lacking mirth; devoid of joy.
As adjectives the difference between somber and mirthless
is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while mirthless is lacking mirth; devoid of joy.As a verb somber
is .somber
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Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English) sombreAdjective
(er)Synonyms
* melancholy, unhappy, sadReferences
Anagrams
* ----mirthless
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Adjective
(en adjective)- "The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms: hollow, heartless, mirthless , maniacal... " – James Thurber