sombre.
Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
Meaning & usage
Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
Grave; extremely serious.
a sombre situation
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).
Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).
To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).
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