sombrous

comparative more sombrous · superlative most sombrous

1. Gloomy; sombre.

   It was some time before my eyes became used to its artificial dusk, and I could make out the different animals leading their sombrous lives behind the glass by the light of a pale moon.

   2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 2

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   Before me rose an avenue / Of tall and sombrous pines; / Abroad their fan-like branches grew, / And, where the sunshine darted through, / Spread a vapor soft and blue, / In long and sloping lines.

   1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Prelude