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sombre

US // (ˈsɒmbə) //

忧郁的,忧伤的,忧郁,忧伤

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dismal; melancholya sombre mood
    • : dim, gloomy, or shadowy
    • : sober, dull, or dark

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inblack
as inblack
as inonyx
as inpitch-black

Examples

  • To highlight them, Frum believes, would have been to make the book less amusing and more sombre.

  • His eyes became more sombre, looked suddenly as if even their material weight must have increased.

  • The more his kind wife exerted herself to comfort him, the more obstinately he persisted in maintaining his own sombre views.

  • In quiet shade the sombre valley lay,While all the little hills around were clothedWith the soft lustre of the dewy moon.

  • Thick clouds of smoke overcast the sky, shrouding the morning with sombre gray.

  • If you can stand a few hours of talk from an old smacksman you may hear a sombre litany of horror.