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Sombre vs Discouraging - What's the difference?

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Sombre is a related term of discouraging.


As verbs the difference between sombre and discouraging

is that sombre is while discouraging is .

As an adjective discouraging is

that causes discouragement.

As a noun discouraging is

discouragement.

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)

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    discouraging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • that causes discouragement
  • * 1876 Brewster Higley - A Home on the Range
  • * Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam / Where the Deer and the Antelope play; / Where never is heard a discouraging word, / And the sky is not clouded all day

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • discouragement
  • * Lydia Ann Barclay
    • But, alas! I fear the health of the better part is dwindling instead of increasing, through letting in the enemy's discouragings , and a want of feeling after the daily sap of life, whereby strength would be received to overcome all obstacles