Sombre
adjective
Dark and gloomy.
The room was sombre with minimal lighting.
Often appears as...
- sombre mood
- sombre atmosphere
adjective
Serious or sad.
Her face had a sombre expression.
Often appears as...
- sombre mood
- sombre news
adjective
Dark and gloomy.
The room was sombre with minimal lighting.
Often appears as...
- sombre mood
- sombre atmosphere
adjective
Serious or sad.
Her face had a sombre expression.
Often appears as...
- sombre mood
- sombre news
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Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'sombre' to describe scenes that evoke a dark, subdued visual experience.
A sombre landscape under overcast skies.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Color
'Sombre' is not limited to color only but also describes the overall gloomy atmosphere.
The sombre hallway was silent and dimly lit.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Sombre' carries emotional weight, often suggesting a sense of sadness or depression.
The news cast a sombre shadow over the evening.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'sombre' to describe scenes that evoke a dark, subdued visual experience.
A sombre landscape under overcast skies.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Color
'Sombre' is not limited to color only but also describes the overall gloomy atmosphere.
The sombre hallway was silent and dimly lit.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Sombre' carries emotional weight, often suggesting a sense of sadness or depression.
The news cast a sombre shadow over the evening.
Pro Tip 1/3Visual Imagery
Use 'sombre' to describe scenes that evoke a dark, subdued visual experience.
A sombre landscape under overcast skies.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Color
'Sombre' is not limited to color only but also describes the overall gloomy atmosphere.
The sombre hallway was silent and dimly lit.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Weight
'Sombre' carries emotional weight, often suggesting a sense of sadness or depression.
The news cast a sombre shadow over the evening.
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Video examples
Richard Pyle: Exploring...
There are only five to six thousand known species, so a very large percentage of what is out there isn't really known. We thought we had a handle on all the reef fish diversity -- evidently not. I'm going to just close on a very somber note. At the beginning, I said I'd show you two extraordinary photographs.
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Janine di Giovanni: What...
and this was not a party. It was a very somber gathering of the reporters that worked there during the war, humanitarian aid workers, and of course the brave and courageous people of Sarajevo themselves. And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo,
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Jodi Picoult: Leaving...
it's just the bones of elephants. They have been known and very often return to the site where an elephant has died for years afterward, as if they are paying respects, like they are going to the grave site. And again, when they get there, they get very quiet, somber, reverential,
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A tale of mental illness...
I was bad as bad as any he had ever seen hi I said and then I returned to the couch where i sat in silence for several moments thank you for coming Steve crumbling world word voice tell the clocks to stop time is time has come white is leaving Steve said sombrely I'm
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Hiroshima Photo Walk PIPE...
we started near the epicenter of the atomic bomb and the dome that's still partially standing a very sad very somber serious place but also the emblem of the tenacity and the tough spirit of people here in hiroshima they call it the peace memorial park
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A Navy Admiral's...
laughed but this is how we move the message and moving that message is how we connect international interagency private-public and these social nets to help create security now let me hit a somber note this is a photograph of a
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James Stavridis: How...
Yeah, we laugh, but this is how we move the message, and moving that message is how we connect international, interagency, private-public, and these social nets to help create security. Now, let me hit a somber note.
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How to ask for help --...
She tends to prefer sort of darker, more neutral tones. And so I said, very helpfully, that I thought maybe she could go back upstairs and try to find something a little less somber. So, if looks could kill,
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John Wesley Powell: From...
guests are bandied about freely among them and yet to me the jests are ghastly and the cheer is somber even I the
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Tourists vs. Congo...
somber but we had hours of difficult hiking ahead of us
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Richard Pyle: Exploring...
There are only five to six thousand known species, so a very large percentage of what is out there isn't really known. We thought we had a handle on all the reef fish diversity -- evidently not. I'm going to just close on a very somber note. At the beginning, I said I'd show you two extraordinary photographs.
Video examples
Janine di Giovanni: What...
and this was not a party. It was a very somber gathering of the reporters that worked there during the war, humanitarian aid workers, and of course the brave and courageous people of Sarajevo themselves. And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo,
Video examples
Jodi Picoult: Leaving...
it's just the bones of elephants. They have been known and very often return to the site where an elephant has died for years afterward, as if they are paying respects, like they are going to the grave site. And again, when they get there, they get very quiet, somber, reverential,
Video examples
A tale of mental illness...
I was bad as bad as any he had ever seen hi I said and then I returned to the couch where i sat in silence for several moments thank you for coming Steve crumbling world word voice tell the clocks to stop time is time has come white is leaving Steve said sombrely I'm
Video examples
Hiroshima Photo Walk PIPE...
we started near the epicenter of the atomic bomb and the dome that's still partially standing a very sad very somber serious place but also the emblem of the tenacity and the tough spirit of people here in hiroshima they call it the peace memorial park
Video examples
A Navy Admiral's...
laughed but this is how we move the message and moving that message is how we connect international interagency private-public and these social nets to help create security now let me hit a somber note this is a photograph of a
Video examples
James Stavridis: How...
Yeah, we laugh, but this is how we move the message, and moving that message is how we connect international, interagency, private-public, and these social nets to help create security. Now, let me hit a somber note.
Video examples
How to ask for help --...
She tends to prefer sort of darker, more neutral tones. And so I said, very helpfully, that I thought maybe she could go back upstairs and try to find something a little less somber. So, if looks could kill,
Video examples
John Wesley Powell: From...
guests are bandied about freely among them and yet to me the jests are ghastly and the cheer is somber even I the
Video examples
Tourists vs. Congo...
somber but we had hours of difficult hiking ahead of us
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Quote examples
Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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Barbara Kingsolver
American Novelist
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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Glenn Danzig
American Musician
My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn't see those guys walking around like that.
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Bruce Jay Friedman
American Novelist
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
British Journalist
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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Donna Mills
American Actress
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
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Taylor Goldsmith
American Musician
When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.
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Manuel Puig
Argentinian Author
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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Melanie Martinez
American Musician
The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.
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Joe Trohman
American Musician
I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.
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Emile Durkheim
French Sociologist
There is a collective as well as an individual humor inclining peoples to sadness or cheerfulness, making them see things in bright or somber lights. In fact, only society can pass a collective opinion on the value of human life; for this the individual is incompetent.
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Barbara Kingsolver
American Novelist
Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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Glenn Danzig
American Musician
My image is dark and sombre. It fits my personality. The problem I always had with the people in the Misfits was that it was a put-on. You wouldn't see those guys walking around like that.
Quote examples
Bruce Jay Friedman
American Novelist
The most important thing about a TV set is to get it back against something and not out in the middle of a room where it's like a somber fellow making electronic judgments on you.
Quote examples
Malcolm Muggeridge
British Journalist
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Quote examples
Donna Mills
American Actress
Even colors were important to me. If it was a somber scene, the colors were muted and dark. If it was a happy or seductive scene, the colors were brighter.
Quote examples
Taylor Goldsmith
American Musician
When we record a song, like 'Bedside Manner,' it's important that the next time I write a somber, mid-tempo song that we don't treat it the same way.
Quote examples
Manuel Puig
Argentinian Author
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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Melanie Martinez
American Musician
The real me is this deep, kind of somber person. I can't really help that.
Quote examples
Joe Trohman
American Musician
I like guitar sounds to be a little somber.
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