Somber

Definition: Somber

Somber

Adjective

1. Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood".

2. Lacking brightness or color; dull; "drab faded curtains"; "sober Puritan gray"; "children in somber brown clothes".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "somber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Somber \Som"ber\, Sombre \Som"bre\, adjective. [French sombre; compare to Spanish sombra, shade, probably from Late Latin subumbrare to put in the shade; Latin sub under + umbra shade. See Umbrage.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Somber

Dejection

Adjective: cheerless, joyless, spiritless; uncheerful, uncheery; unlively; unhappy; melancholy, dismal, somber, dark, gloomy, triste, clouded, murky, lowering, frowning, lugubrious, funereal, mournful, lamentable, dreadful.

Crosswords: Somber

Dutch (bleak, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, miserable, mournful, sad, somber, sullen).

Books

• Dekok and the Somber Nude (reference)

• Die somber muse (reference)

• Homespun America; a collection of writings--happy, somber, gay, serious, rough, subtle, and otherwise--designed to capture the essential quality of the free United States (reference)

• Somber Lust: The Art of Amos Oz (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) (reference)

• World Economic and Social Crisis: Its Impact on the Underdeveloped Countries, Its Somber Prospects and the Need to Struggle If We Are to Survive (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Somber Eyes to the Sky (reference)

• Somber Regards (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

These are somber facts for anyone to have to recite on the morrow of a victory gained by so much splendid comradeship in arms and in the cause of freedom and democracy; but we should be most unwise not to face them squarely while time remains. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "somber": dull sober somber subfusc ♦ somber forecast ♦ somber prospect ♦ somber red. Additional references.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i ngrysur (dark, dismal, farouche, gloomy, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, morose, saturnine, sombre, sulky, sullen, woebegone), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, sombre, splenetic, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar), ‏داكن اللون (muddy, sombre, swarthy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сериозен (earnest, grave, heavy, intent, prayerful, sad, sage, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, sombre, staid, steady, straight), тъмен (black, blackish, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dense, dusk, dusky, esoteric, fuscous, inky, low-browed, murky, neutral, obscure, opaque, overcast, sad, shady, sombre, sooty, unlit), навъсен (beetle-browed, gloomy, glum, lowering, morose, murky, saturnine, sombre, surly), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), печален (dark, disconsolate, distressful, distressing, dolorous, drear, grave, grievous, heavyhearted, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, sombre, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, woeful). (various references)

Chinese 

陰暗 (dim). (various references)

Czech

zádumèivý (melancholy, sombre), temný (dark, gloomy, hollow, murky, obscure, sad, shady, sombre), ponurý (black, cheerless, dark, dismal, gaunt, gloomy, grim, lurid, sombre). (various references)

Dutch

somber (bleak, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, miserable, mournful, sad, sullen), naargeestig (bleak, desolate, dismal, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, miserable, mournful, sad, sullen), mistroostig (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Esperanto

malgaja (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad). (various references)

Faeroese

syrgiligur (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen), óglaður (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Farsi 

محزون (Despondent, Minor, Pensive, Plaintive, Sad, Tragic), غم انگیز (Burdensome, Lugubrious, Tragic), تاریک (Blind, Caliginous, Dark, Dim, Dusky, Gloomy, Lackluster). (various references)

French

sombre (sombre), maussade (sombre, sour). (various references)

Frisian

ferdrietlik (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen), drôf (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

German

düster (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, dreary, dusky, forbidding, frowning, funereal, funereally, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, Gray, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, sepulcher, sinister, somberly, sombre, sullen). (various references)

Greek 

σκοτεινόσ (black, dark, dim, dingy, dusk, murky, obscure, opaque, recondite, shady, sombre), μελαγχολικόσ (blue, broody, depressed, despondent, dismal, joyless, melancholic, melancholy, sombre, wistful), ζοφερόσ (cheerless, dismal, gloomy, mirk, murk, sombre, tenebrous), λύτησ (sombre). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�"וכ�"ך (crestfallen, desolate, despondent, doldrums, down in the mouth, dumpy, gloomy, glum, melancholy), קו�"ר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, sullen, tenebrous), אפל (black, dark, dim, gloomy, leaden, obscure). (various references)

Hungarian

komor (beetle brows, black, dark, darksome, dingy, dismal, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, louring, lowering, lugubrious, saturnine, sombre, sullen, surly, to be down in the dumps), sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, sombre, stygian, tenebrous), kietlen (bald, bare, bleak, drear, dreary, sombre). (various references)

Icelandic

dapur (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Indonesian

gobar. (various references)

Italian

triste (black, bleak, blue, blue-deviled, blue-devilled, cheerless, dark, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dull, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, heavy, hipped, lachrymose, miserable, moody, moped, sad, sombre, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), fosco (dark, dingy, dismal, dull, gloomy, grim, lurid, murky, saturnine, sombre, sullen), afflitto (bleak, destressed, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, sorrowful, sorrowing, sorry, sullen, unhappy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

暗た�" (dark, depressing, gloomy), 暗澹 (dark, depressing, gloomy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あ�"た�" (dark, depressing, gloomy). (various references)

Norwegian

sturen (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Papiamen

tristu (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Pig Latin

ombersay

Polish

smutny (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Portuguese

triste (bleak, blue, broken-hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, gaunt, gloomily, gray, grey, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moody, mopish, mourning, pained, painful, pensive, piteous, sad, saturnine, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, sombre, stygian, umbrageous). (various references)

Romanian

sumbru (black, cloudy, dark, dismal, dreary, dull, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, overcast, shadowy, sombre), ursuz (churlish, crabbed, crabby, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, sombre, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), posomorât (beetle, cheerless, dark, dismal, dull, gloomily, gloomy, jaw-fallen, melancholy, mopish, overcast, sombre), melancolic (doleful, gloomily, gloomy, languorously, melancholically, melancholy, pensive, pensively, sad, sombre, splenetic, wistful), cernit (black, blackened, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dull, dusky, gloomy, sad, sombre, sullen), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Russian 

мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sumračan (crepuscular, dim, dusky, sombre), tmuran (cloudy, sombre), natmuren (glum, overcast, sombre, thundery), namršten (gloomy, leaden, sombre), mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, sombre, tenebrous). (various references)

Spanish

triste (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, depressing, dismal, doleful, dolorous, drear, dreary, gaunt, gloomy, glum, heavy, hipped, joyless, joylessly, mirthless, miserable, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy), afligido (afflicted, aggrieved, bereaved, bleak, desolate, dismal, distressed, dreary, gaunt, miserable, mournful, pained, sad, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, sullen, troubled). (various references)

Tagalog

malungkót (bleak, dismal, dreary, gaunt, miserable, sad, sullen). (various references)

Thai

ทึม (สี), มื�"ครึ้ม, มื�"มน. (various references)

Turkish

loş (dusk, dusky, gloomy, obscure, shadowy, shady, sombre), koyu (black, crusted, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, intense, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, sombre, stiff, strong, tenebrous, thick), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somberness, sombre, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), karamsar (dejected, depressed, downbeat, heavy-hearted, low, pessimistic, sombre), iç karartıcı (depressing, drear, dreary, gloomy, sad, sombre, sullen), hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, downcast, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, glum, melancholic, rueful, sad, sombre, sorrowful). (various references)

Ukrainian

темний (abstruse, backwoods, black, cimmerian, dark, darkling, darksome, lowering, murk, murky, nightly, nigrescent, obscure, occult, opaque, shaded, smutty, sombre), понурий (blue, chap-fallen, cheerless, dogged, dour, gloomy, morose, murky, overcast, sombre). (various references)

subumbrare. (various references)

sombre. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "somber": somberly, somberness, sombernesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Somber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gombar, Isambert, pombe, sambur, scomer, Sekber, Senbef, smober, soben, sobert, sobev, somba, sombrel, somer, sommer, sonber, submer, sumber, Sumbu, tomber, Tshombe. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bromes, ombers, ombres, sombre.

-1 letter: berms, besom, bores, brome, brose, mores, morse, omber, ombre, omers, robes, sober.

-2 letters: berm, bore, bros, eros, mobs, more, mors, obes, omer, orbs, ores, rebs, rems, robe, robs, roes, roms, rose, some, sorb, sore.

-3 letters: bos, bro, ems, ers, mob, mor, mos, obe, oes, oms, orb, ore, ors, ose, reb, rem, res, rob.

+1 letter: beworms, bombers, boomers, combers, embryos, hombres, mobbers, mobster, recombs.

+2 letters: bedrooms, bioherms, biramose, bloomers, boredoms, boresome, bromates, bromides, bromines, bromizes, cramboes, embosser, embowers, embroils, embrowns, embryons, imbowers, microbes, mobsters, problems, reblooms, ribosome, somberly, sombrely, sombrero, temblors, webworms.

+3 letters: amberoids, beclamors, beglamors, bergamots, bottomers, brimstone, bromelins, broomiest, chemisorb, combaters, combiners, comembers, corymbose, crossbeam, embargoes, embodiers, emborders, embossers, embryoids, firebombs, forebooms, forelimbs, framboise, homebreds, homebrews, hornbeams, jamborees, jeroboams, rebeldoms, rehoboams, rhabdomes, rhombuses, ribosomes, sombreros, superbomb, temblores, trombones.

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