somber
adjUS /ˈsɑmbɚ/ · UK /ˈsɒmbə/
- 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 all1980, Earth, Wind & Fire, “Turn It Into Something Good”, in Faces:
- 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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- 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:
- Derived terms
- somberish, somberly, somberness, sombersome, unsomber