somber

Speech parts

1. somber - Noun

2. somber - Adjective

3. somber - Verb

4. somber - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Sombre

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The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. Joseph Conrad

I like guitar sounds to be a little somber. Joe Trohman

War! Some of the invalids break the silence, and say the word again under their breath, reflecting that this is the greatest happening of the age, and perhaps of all ages. Even on the lucid landscape at which they gaze the news casts something like a vague and somber mirage. Henri Barbusse

I am an American, Chicago born - Chicago, that somber city - and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. Saul Bellow

Slowly he rose, mechanically wiping his hands upon his cloak. A dark scowl had settled on his somber brow. Yet he made no wild, reckless vow, swore no oath by saints or devils. "Men shall die for this," he said coldly. Robert E. Howard

We have two lives about us, Two worlds in which we dwell, Within us and without us, Alternate Heaven and Hell Without, the somber Real, Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal. Richard Henry Stoddard

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