somber, sombre, melancholy
(adjective) grave or even gloomy in character; “solemn and mournful music”; “a suit of somber black”; “a somber mood”
drab, sober, somber, sombre
(adjective) lacking brightness or color; dull; “drab faded curtains”; “sober Puritan grey”; “children in somber brown clothes”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sombre (comparative sombrer, superlative sombrest) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
Grave; extremely serious.
• melancholy
• dreary
• dire
• dismal
sombre (uncountable)
(obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
sombre (third-person singular simple present sombres, present participle sombring, simple past and past participle sombred)
To make sombre or dark; to make shady.
• bromes, ombres, somber
Source: Wiktionary
Som"ber, Som"bre, a. Etym: [F. sombre; cf. Sp. sombra, shade, prob. from LL. subumbrare to put in the shade; L. sub under + umbra shade. See Umbrage.]
1. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.
2. Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short. Beaconsfield.
Som"ber, Som"bre, v. t.
Definition: To make somber, or dark; to make shady. [R.]
Som"ber, Som"bre, n.
Definition: Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
