Sorrowful vs Sombre - What's the difference?
sorrowful | sombre | Related terms |
Of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.
Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous.
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum , The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
Sorrowful is a related term of sombre.
As an adjective sorrowful
is of a person, full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed; distraught.As a verb sombre is
.sorrowful
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Adjective
(en adjective)- sorrowful accident
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Synonyms
* See also * mournful, lamentable, grievous * See alsoExternal links
* *sombre
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Alternative forms
* (US ) somberAdjective
(er)- The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
- a sombre situation