Sombre

Definition: Sombre

Sombre

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 "sombre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Sombre

Crosswords: Sombre

French (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, desolate, dim, dingy, dirty, dismal, dreary, dull, dun, dusky, gaunt, gloomy, lowering, melancholy, miserable, morose, mournful, murky, overcast, poky, rugged, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, stern, stygian, sullen).

Sombre dimanche (1948)

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

Books

• Fantastiques Legendes Du Quebec: Recits de L'Ombre Et Du Sombre (reference)

• Fleuve Profond / Sombre Riviere Les Negro Spirituals (reference)

• His Sombre Rivals (Notable American Authors) (reference)

• La violence conjugale au Québec : un sombre tableau (reference)

• Le mystère de la sombre zone (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Sombre Romantic (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

A strange, sombre face. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Accordingly, the crowd was sombre and grave.

This opening was sombre, and through this porthole there came more cold than warmth, more night than day.

The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light.

Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existance for him.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "sombre": sombre red. Additional references.

Beginning with "sombre": sombre-eyed, sombre-looking, sombre-suited, sombre-visaged, sombre-yet-supportive.

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, somber, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i ngrysur (dark, dismal, farouche, gloomy, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, morose, saturnine, somber, 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, somber, 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, somber, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏نكد (chafe, distemper, fractious, grouchiness, moodiness, moody, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, somber, splenetic, sulk, sullen, testy, vex, vinegar), ‏داكن اللون (muddy, somber, swarthy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сериозен (earnest, grave, heavy, intent, prayerful, sad, sage, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, somber, 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, somber, sooty, unlit), навъсен (beetle-browed, gloomy, glum, lowering, morose, murky, saturnine, somber, 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, somber, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful), печален (dark, disconsolate, distressful, distressing, dolorous, drear, grave, grievous, heavyhearted, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, tearful, tristful, woeful). (various references)

Chinese 

严肃 (Austere, Austereness, Austerities, Austerity, serious, severity). (various references)

Czech

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

Danish

soergemejse (sombre tit). (various references)

Dutch

rouwmees (sombre tit). (various references)

French

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

German

trist (dismal, dreary, dull, miserable, sad, solemn, somber, somberly), trauervoll (mournful, mournfully, somber, somberly), trüb (bleak, bleary, cheerless, cloudy, dim, drab, dull, filmy, fishy, gloomy, grey, grim, lackluster, lacklustre, misty, muddily, muddy, murky, somber, somberly, turbid, turbidly), finster (black, blackly, dark, dim, frowning, gauntly, gloomily, gloomy, glowering, gloweringly, grim, louring, loweringly, murkily, murky, obfuscatory, saturnine, shady, sinister, somber, somberly), dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, lightless, murky, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, swarthily, swarthy, tenebrous, vague, vaguely), 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, somber, somberly, sullen). (various references)

Greek 

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

Hungarian

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, somber, stygian, tenebrous), komor (beetle brows, black, dark, darksome, dingy, dismal, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, louring, lowering, lugubrious, saturnine, somber, sullen, surly, to be down in the dumps). (various references)

Italian

scuro (black, bleak, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, dreary, dull, overcast, somber, swarthy), 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, somber, sorrowful, sorry, sullen, unhappy, wan, woebegone), tetro (dark, dismal, dreary, dusky, feral, gloomy, lugubrious, morose, somber, sour), tenebroso (dark, dim, gloomy, murky, somber), oscuro (black, dark, dim, gloomy, humble, murky, obscure, somber), malinconico (dismal, doleful, gloomy, hipped, melancholic, melancholy, morose, pensive, sad, saturnine, somber, wistful, wistfully), fosco (dark, dingy, dismal, dull, gloomy, grim, lurid, murky, saturnine, somber, sullen), buio (black, bleak, dark, darkness, dismal, dreary, gloom, gloominess, murkiness, night, somber, somberness, sombreness). (various references)

Korean 

침침한. (various references)

Manx

groamey (depressing, depressive, ill-tempered, joyless, moody, sepulchral), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sorry, stern, sullen, surly), dooagh (down, inky). (various references)

Pig Latin

ombresay

Portuguese

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, somber, stygian, umbrageous), 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, somber, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), melancólico (atrabilious, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, dumpish, gaunt, gloomy, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopish, morose, mournful, mourning, pensive, sad, somber), escuro (abstruse, blackish, bock, dark, darkling, deep, dim, dimness, dismal, dusk, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, inky, mirk, moonless, muddy, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, somber, swart, umber), enevoado (dark, foggy, mirk, misty, murk, somber). (various references)

Romanian

sumbru (black, cloudy, dark, dismal, dreary, dull, dusky, fuscous, gloomy, overcast, shadowy, somber), ursuz (churlish, crabbed, crabby, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, morose, peevish, somber, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), posomorât (beetle, cheerless, dark, dismal, dull, gloomily, gloomy, jaw-fallen, melancholy, mopish, overcast, somber), melancolic (doleful, gloomily, gloomy, languorously, melancholically, melancholy, pensive, pensively, sad, somber, splenetic, wistful), cernit (black, blackened, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkened, dim, dull, dusky, gloomy, sad, somber, 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, somber, tenebrous). (various references)

Russian 

унылый (bleak, chap-fallen, cheerless, crest-fallen, depressed, depressing, despondent, downcast, downhearted, down-hearted, dumpy, gloomy, godforsaken, heavy-hearted, howling, low-spirited, mopish, rueful, somber), темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, dark, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, sunless, tenebrous, unlit), 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, somber, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

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

Spanish

sombrío (cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, dull, glum, shadowy, somber), pesimista (depressed, gloomy, pessimist, pessimistic, somber). (various references)

Swedish

mörk (dark, darksome, dingy, dun, dusky, grave, murk, murky, obscure). (various references)

Turkish

loş (dusk, dusky, gloomy, obscure, shadowy, shady, somber), koyu (black, crusted, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, intense, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, somber, 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, somber, 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, somber, somberness, sombreness, tenebrous, unlit), karamsar (dejected, depressed, downbeat, heavy-hearted, low, pessimistic, somber), iç karartıcı (depressing, drear, dreary, gloomy, sad, somber, sullen), hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, downcast, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, glum, melancholic, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful). (various references)

Ukrainian

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

Parus lugubris. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sombre": sombrely, sombrero, sombreros. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bromes, ombers, ombres, somber.

-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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