Sombre vs Vicious - What's the difference?
sombre | vicious | Related terms |
Dark; gloomy.
Dull or dark in colour.
Melancholy; dismal.
* Beaconsfield
Grave.
(obsolete) gloom; obscurity; duskiness
Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.195:
*:We may so seize on vertue, that if we embrace it with an over-greedy and violent desire, it may become vicious .
Evil, immoral or depraved.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Savage and aggressive.
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Sombre is a related term of vicious.
As a verb sombre
is .As an adjective vicious is
pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.sombre
English
Alternative forms
* (US ) somberAdjective
(er)- The dinner was silent and sombre ; happily it was also short.
- a sombre situation