SOMBRE meaning: Gloomy, dark, or melancholy mood

We found 23 dictionaries that define the word sombre:

General (19 matching dictionaries)

sombre: Merriam-Webster.com
sombre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sombre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sombre: Collins English Dictionary
sombre: Vocabulary.com
Sombre, sombre: Wordnik
sombre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
sombre: Wiktionary
sombre: Dictionary.com
Sombre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Sombre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sombre: Rhymezone
Sombre, sombre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
sombre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
sombre: Free Dictionary
sombre: Mnemonic Dictionary
sombre: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

sombre: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

sombre: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Sombre: Urban Dictionary

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky

Definitions from Wiktionary (

)

▸ adjective:  Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
▸ adjective:  Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
▸ adjective:  Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
▸ adjective:  Grave; extremely serious.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
▸ verb:  To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

Opposite:

jocose, jocular, jocund, jocosely, jocundity, jocundly

Types:

dreary, gloomy, melancholy, mournful, pensive, sad, more...

Phrases:

sombre tit, Scanner Sombre, state of being sombre, opposite of sombre, more...

Adjectives:

little, same, own, more, dyce, late, first, whole, fine, latter, second

Colors:

charcoal, slate gray, midnight blue, deep brown, forest green, more...

▸ Words similar to sombre

▸ Usage examples for sombre

▸ Idioms related to sombre

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular nouns described by sombre

▸ Words that often appear near sombre

▸ Rhymes of sombre

▸ Invented words related to sombre