As adjectives the difference between somber and sentimental
is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while sentimental is characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
As a verb somber
is alternative form of lang=en.
somber
English
Alternative forms
* (Commonwealth English) sombre
Adjective
(er)
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.
Synonyms
* melancholy, unhappy, sad
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sentimental
English
Adjective
(
en adjective)
characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion
derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment
romantic
Derived terms
* sentimentalism
* sentimentality
* sentimentally
Quotations
* 1885 : ,
*: Are you in sentimental mood?
*: I'll sigh with you.
* 1944 : ,
*: Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
*: Gonna set my heart at ease.
*: Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,
*: to renew old memories.
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