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单词 somber
释义

somber

adjective

som·​ber ˈsäm-bər How to pronounce somber (audio)
variants or sombre
1
: so shaded as to be dark and gloomy
2
a
: of a serious mien : grave
somber dignitaries
b
: of a dismal or depressing character : melancholy
c
: conveying gloomy suggestions or ideas
3
: of a dull or heavy cast or shade : dark colored
somberly adverb
somberness noun

Synonyms

  • black
  • caliginous
  • dark
  • darkened
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darksome
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dusk
  • dusky
  • gloomy
  • lightless
  • murky
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • rayless
  • stygian
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • unlit
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Example Sentences

Looking out at his audience, a somber mass of monks, Gregory gave Mary a new identity that would shape her image for fourteen hundred years. Jonathan Darman, Newsweek, 29 May 2006 This year marks a somber anniversary—it was 150 years ago that humans wiped out the last survivors of this species. A relative of the razorbills and puffins, and about the size of a small goose, the great auk was black-bodied with a white underbelly, and walked erect, like a penguin. Bill Montevecchi, Natural History, August 1994 The purple darkness was filled with men who lectured and jabbered. Sometimes he could see them gesticulating against the blue and somber sky. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, 1895 Her death put us in a somber mood. The movie is a somber portrait of life on the streets. He wore a somber suit. See More
Recent Examples on the Web Referee Sergii Demianchuk — an immigrant from Ukraine with family living in the war zone — set the ball down for the opening kick, and a somber moment of reflection shifted to a joyous celebration of two clubs uniting behind an important cause. oregonlive, 27 Apr. 2022 The somber moment was short lived, however, as Bieber left the piano behind to join his collaborators Caesar and Giveon. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2022 In a somber moment in the rain, the men each laid a wreath at the Hiroshima victims memorial. Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022 As President Joe Biden was coming to the end of his State of the Union address Tuesday night, a somber moment about his son’s death turned into a stunning outburst by one of the Republicans' most outspoken members. Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 2 Mar. 2022 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) plays it straight during a somber moment in Democrats’ Capitol riot anniversary show. James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022 But some somber economic data, including a very disappointing jobs report and changes in consumer sentiment on the back of rising Covid-19 cases, have pushed back expectations for the taper timeline. Cnn Business, CNN, 22 Sep. 2021 Still, the visuals served as a somber moment of pause on a heavy day. Rashika Jaipuriar, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2021 In the weeks that followed, somber tributes unfolded from coast to coast. San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

French sombre

First Known Use

1760, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

somber

adjective

som·​ber
variants or sombre
ˈsäm-bər
1
: very sad or serious
a somber mood
somber news
2
: being dark and gloomy : dull
somber colors

somber

adjective

variants or sombre
1
as in darkened
being without light or without much light the prison's somber interrogation room has the desired effect of striking fear and despair into the prisoner

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • darkened
  • dark
  • murky
  • gloomy
  • obscured
  • dimmed
  • dim
  • obscure
  • black
  • dusky
  • dusk
  • darkish
  • stygian
  • darkling
  • lightless
  • unlit
  • rayless
  • darksome
  • tenebrous
  • caliginous
  • pitchy
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • twilit
  • crepuscular
  • tenebrific
  • dulled
  • gray
  • lackluster
  • shadowy
  • dull
  • shady
  • starless
  • moonless
  • pale
  • cloudy
  • misty
  • foggy
  • leaden
  • shadowlike
  • sunless
  • clouded
  • smoggy
  • grey
  • beclouded
  • fuliginous
  • soupy
  • befogged

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • light
  • bright
  • luminous
  • brilliant
  • lighted
  • lucid
  • illuminated
  • lightsome
  • sparkling
  • shining
  • brightened
  • lit
  • resplendent
  • radiant
  • illumined
  • incandescent
  • lucent
  • glaring
  • glowing
  • lambent
  • effulgent
  • lustrous
  • glossy
  • shiny
  • beaming
  • alight
  • beamy
  • aglitter
  • sunlit
  • moonlit
  • spotlit
  • moony
  • highlighted
  • agleam
  • relucent
  • ultrabright
  • spotlighted
  • ablaze
  • starlit
  • floodlit
  • floodlighted
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2
as in solemn
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer the somber occasion of a dear friend's funeral

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • solemn
  • funereal
  • dark
  • lonely
  • sad
  • mournful
  • morose
  • morbid
  • gloomy
  • darkening
  • lugubrious
  • elegiac
  • depressive
  • bleak
  • depressing
  • glum
  • sullen
  • cheerless
  • gray
  • dreary
  • sepulchral
  • forlorn
  • dismal
  • melancholy
  • saturnine
  • desolate
  • disconsolate
  • lonesome
  • black
  • drear
  • miserable
  • cloudy
  • dire
  • cold
  • murky
  • comfortless
  • chill
  • melancholic
  • tenebrous
  • wretched
  • godforsaken
  • plutonian
  • grey
  • elegiacal
  • sunless
  • sorrowful
  • dejected
  • dreich
  • depressed
  • woebegone
  • mirthless
  • unhappy
  • despondent
  • distressful
  • blue
  • pessimistic
  • tenebrific
  • hangdog
  • discomfiting
  • dispiriting
  • grim
  • plaintive
  • inconsolable
  • upsetting
  • dismaying
  • discouraging
  • Cimmerian
  • lamentable
  • disheartening
  • dim
  • woeful
  • droopy
  • dour
  • desperate
  • distressing
  • down
  • hopeless
  • drab
  • menacing
  • low
  • oppressive
  • colorless
  • negative
  • dull
  • threatening
  • lowering
  • lowery
  • louring
  • loury

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • cheerful
  • bright
  • cheery
  • festive
  • friendly
  • joyous
  • joyful
  • comforting
  • cordial
  • sunshiny
  • mirthful
  • gay
  • buoyant
  • merry
  • jolly
  • optimistic
  • blithe
  • hopeful
  • gay
  • heartwarming
  • lighthearted
  • encouraging
  • blithesome
  • cheering
  • jocund
  • lightsome
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