Definition for Sombre:

• lacking brightness or color; dull; " drab faded curtains"; " sober Puritan gray"; " children in somber brown clothes"

Synonyms for Sombre:

• adj.

  •black (adjective)
  • swart,
  • oppressive,
  • jet,
  • horrible,
  • murky,
  • swarthy,
  • gloomy,
  • atrocious,
  • raven,
  • slater,
  • foreboding,
  • slate,
  • livid,
  • dusky,
  • pitchy,
  • onyx,
  • starless,
  • depressive,
  • sad,
  • Atramentous,
  • pitch,
  • coal,
  • distressing,
  • pitch-dark,
  • threatening,
  • sinister,
  • clouded,
  • sable,
  • coaler,
  • brunet,
  • depressing,
  • funereal,
  • pitch dark,
  • Piceous,
  • sloe,
  • doleful,
  • melanoid,
  • charcoal,
  • inklike,
  • dismal,
  • ebony,
  • dingy,
  • sooty,
  • lugubrious,
  • bleak,
  • dispiriting,
  • sombrer,
  • obsidian,
  • dreary,
  • stygian,
  • ominous,
  • shadowy,
  • pitch-black,
  • ebon.

• n.

  •cheerless (noun)
  • cheerless.
  •colorless (noun)
  • colorless.
  •colourless (noun)
  • colourless.
  •sombre (noun)
  • uncheerful.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • anguished,
  • black,
  • ho-hum,
  • lackluster,
  • lusterless,
  • matte,
  • mournful,
  • Dolent,
  • in pain,
  • in sorrow,
  • in mourning,
  • draggy,
  • full of sorrow,
  • griefstricken,
  • ho hum,
  • hohum,
  • laid back,
  • pitch-dark pitchy.
  •n.
  • drab,
  • melancholy,
  • sober,
  • somber.

Paraphrases for Sombre:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    somber, bleak, grim.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    pessimistic, sobering, dire, depressing, severe, stark, serious, miserable, dusky.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dusky.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    gloom.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    gloomy, dismal, murky, sad.

Antonyms for Sombre:

• adj.

  • black
    optimistic, hopeful, white, good, happy, clean.
  • lackluster
    shiny, shining, spirited, enthusiastic, lively, bright.
  • mournful
    cheerful, joyful.
  • Other antonyms:
    colorful, colourful.

Sombre Sentence Examples:

• His sombre tone brought back her senses which had been wandering.

• Her melancholy dark eyes, deep and sombre as mountain tarns, wandered from the brother's handsome face to the beautiful one of the sister.

Homophones for Sombre:

• somber, snobbery, snooper, sombrero, snuffer, simperer, sambur, semipro, skimp over, scamper, snapper, skim over, sinoper, sunberry, samphire, ski jumper, skin over, sambre, swamp hare, sign over, saquinavir, snowberry, sniper, samovar, simper, sea cucumber, sambar, swamp fever, semaphore, scomber, signifier, sniffer.