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

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

Encyclopedia: Sombre