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[ som -ber ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈsɒm bər / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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adjective gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
dark and dull, as color, or as things in respect to color: a somber dress.
gloomy, depressing, or dismal: a somber mood.
extremely serious; grave: a somber expression on his face.
Also especially British , som·bre .
Origin of somber 1750–60; <French sombre, Middle French, probably noun derivative of *sombrer to make shady <Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre, equivalent to Latin sub- sub- + umbrāre to cast a shadow, derivative of umbra shade
SYNONYMS FOR somber 1 dusky, murky, sunless.
3 lugubrious, mournful, doleful, melancholy.
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OTHER WORDS FROM somber som·ber·ly, adverb som·ber·ness, noun un·som·ber, adjective un·som·ber·ly, adverb
un·som·ber·ness, noun
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He paused, his hand arrested in the act of hanging up his last necktie, and for a moment his face was somber .
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