sombre has definitions from the field of color
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[ adjective ] grave or even gloomy in character

Synonyms

somber

Examples

"solemn and mournful music" "a suit of somber black" "a somber mood"

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

And yet amid all the gay hedonism in Pilgrimage and Wander-Years is a cycle of short poems , '' Thoughts_in_Loneliness `` , filled with brooding , melancholy , and sombre longing '' .

Related terms

cheerless

2
[ adjective ] (color) lacking brightness or color; dull

Synonyms

sober somber drab

Examples

"drab faded curtains" "sober Puritan gray" "children in somber brown clothes"

Related terms

colorless

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