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Sombre vs Sunless - What's the difference?

sombre | sunless | Related terms |

Sombre is a related term of sunless.


As a verb sombre

is .

As an adjective sunless is

without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

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

    * ----

    sunless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
  • * 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
    • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.
  • (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
  • * 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
    • When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless , her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.

    Derived terms

    * sunlessly * sunlessness

    Anagrams

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