Usually means: Gloomy, dark, or melancholy mood.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word sombre:

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  1. sombre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sombre: Merriam-Webster
  3. sombre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sombre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sombre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sombre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sombre, sombre: Wordnik
  8. sombre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sombre: Wiktionary
  10. sombre: Dictionary.com
  11. Sombre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sombre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sombre: Rhymezone
  14. Sombre, sombre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sombre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. sombre: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sombre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. sombre: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sombre: Legal dictionary

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  1. sombre: Encyclopedia

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  1. Sombre: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
▸ adjective:  Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
▸ adjective:  Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
▸ adjective:  Grave; extremely serious.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.
▸ verb:  To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

Similar:
somber, colorless, cheerless, colourless, uncheerful, drab, sober, sombrous, murky, darksome, more...

Opposite:
jocose, jocular, jocund, jocosely, jocundity, jocundly

Types:
dreary, gloomy, melancholy, mournful, pensive, sad, more...

Phrases:
sombre tit, Scanner Sombre, state of being sombre, opposite of sombre, more...

Adjectives:
little, same, own, more, dyce, late, first, whole, fine, latter, second

Colors:
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Similar:
somber, colorless, cheerless, colourless, uncheerful, drab, sober, sombrous, murky, darksome, more...

Opposite:
jocose, jocular, jocund, jocosely, jocundity, jocundly

Types:
dreary, gloomy, melancholy, mournful, pensive, sad, more...

Phrases:
sombre tit, Scanner Sombre, state of being sombre, opposite of sombre, more...

Adjectives:
little, same, own, more, dyce, late, first, whole, fine, latter, second

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     deep brown,     forest green, more...



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