somber

comparative somberer · superlative somberest

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of sombre.

   My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.

   2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People

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   In your eyes the somber blues / Reflect a place from deep inside of knowing not what to do / I'll be your rock, when you're 'bout to fall / Together, we'll move on ahead and walk right through it all

   1980, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Turn It Into Something Good”, in Faces

   Though I wore only a plain somber gray Brunswick gown unadorned by ribbon or lace, and my uncle was dressed in black, the people knew aristocrats on sight.

   2019 October 1, Kate Quinn, Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie, E. Knight, Sophie Perinot, Heather Webb, Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution's Women, HarperCollins, →ISBN

present singular third person sombers · participle present sombering · participle past sombered · past sombered

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of sombre.