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Lowering vs Sombre - What's the difference?

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Lowering is a related term of sombre.


As verbs the difference between lowering and sombre

is that lowering is while sombre is .

As an adjective lowering

is that lowers or frowns.

As a noun lowering

is the act of something being lowered.

lowering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That lowers or frowns.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something being lowered.

    • 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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