Usually means: Gloomy, dark, or melancholy mood.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word somber:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. somber: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. somber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. somber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. somber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. somber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Somber, somber: Wordnik
  7. somber: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. somber: Wiktionary
  9. somber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. somber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. somber: Dictionary.com
  12. somber: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. somber: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Somber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Somber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. somber: Rhymezone
  17. somber, somber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. somber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. somber: Free Dictionary
  20. somber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. somber: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. somber: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. somber: Infoplease Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. somber: Legal dictionary

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  1. somber: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. somber: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Somber: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See somberly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (American spelling) Alternative form of sombre [Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.]
verb:  (American spelling) Alternative form of sombre [To make sombre or dark; to make shady.]

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    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     forest green,     burgundy,     navy blue,     olive green,     maroon,     gunmetal,     onyx



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