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Somber vs Sombre - What's the difference?

somber | sombre | Alternative forms |

Sombre is a alternative form of somber.

Sombre is a anagram of somber.



As adjectives the difference between somber and sombre

is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while sombre is dark; gloomy.

As verbs the difference between somber and sombre

is that somber is alternative form of lang=en while sombre is to make sombre or dark; to make shady.

As a noun sombre is

gloom; obscurity; duskiness.

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

    Verb

    (en verb)

    • References

    * *

    Anagrams

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    sombre

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (US ) somber

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Dark; gloomy.
  • Dull or dark in colour.
  • Melancholy; dismal.
  • * Beaconsfield
    • The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
  • Grave.
    • a sombre situation

    Synonyms

    * melancholy * dreary * dire * dismal

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness

    • Verb

  • To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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