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Somber vs Umber - What's the difference?

somber | umber |

As adjectives the difference between somber and umber

is that somber is dark or dreary in character; joyless, and grim while umber is of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.

As a verb somber

is .

As a noun umber is

a brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

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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    umber

    English

    (wikipedia umber)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.
  • A grayling.
  • A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta ) allied to the storks and herons.

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.
  • * J. R. Drake
    • Their harps are of the umber shade / That hides the blush of waking day.

    Derived terms

    * *

    See also

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