Sombre vs Glum - What's the difference?
sombre | glum |
Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
(obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
(obsolete) sullenness
despondent; moody; sullen
* Thackeray
As a verb sombre
is .As a noun glum is
light.sombre
English
Alternative forms
* (US ) somberAdjective
(er)- The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
- a sombre situation
Synonyms
* melancholy * dreary * dire * dismalNoun
(-)Anagrams
* ----glum
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) glomen, glommen, glomben, . More at (l).Verb
(glumm)- (Hawes)
Noun
(-)- (Skelton)
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(glummer)- I frighten people by my glum face.