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sombreness Definition


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sombre
adj
    1. Sad and serious; grave.
      Thesaurus: solemn, serious, grave.
    2. Dark and gloomy; melancholy.
      Thesaurus: gloomy, melancholy, dismal, dreary, funereal, joyless, lugubrious, mournful, dire; Antonym: happy, cheerful.
    3. Said eg of colours: dark; drab.
      Thesaurus: dark, drab, dim, dull, dusky, cloudy; Antonym: bright.
    4. Suggesting seriousness, rather than light-heartedness.
Derivative: sombrely
adverb
    Derivative: sombreness
    noun
      Etymology: 18c: from French sombre, perhaps from Latin sub under + umbra shade.



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