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Adjective: somber  sómbur
Usage: US (=sombre)
  1. Lacking brightness or color; dull
    "children in somber brown clothes"
    - drab, sober, sombre [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. Grave or even gloomy in character
    "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
    - sombre [Brit, Cdn], melancholy

See also: cheerless, colorless [US], colourless [Brit, Cdn], depressing, somberly, somberness, uncheerful