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Vaporous vs Sombre - What's the difference?

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Vaporous is a related term of sombre.


As an adjective vaporous

is relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.

As a verb sombre is

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vaporous

English

Alternative forms

* vapourous

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to vapour; misty, foggy, obscure, insubstantial.
  • * 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece
  • O hateful, vaporous , and foggy night!
  • * 1605, Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
  • So whosoever shall entertain high and vaporous imaginations, instead of a laborious and sober inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes.

    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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