sombre

Meanings

Adjective

• Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
• Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
• Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
• Grave; extremely serious.

Noun

• Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.

Verb

• To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

Related

Similar words

• melancholy
• dreary
• dire
• dismal

Origin

• Borrowed from French sombre ("dark"), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- + umbra. Compare Spanish sombra ("shade; dark part of a picture; ghost").