somber

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

somber (comparative somberer, superlative somberest)

  1. US standard spelling of sombre.
    • 2002, Dirk Wittenborn, Fierce People:
      My mother prepared herself for the evening with the same somber deliberateness of the gladiators in Spartacus.

Verb

somber (third-person singular simple present sombers, present participle sombering, simple past and past participle sombered)

  1. US standard spelling of sombre.

References

    • somber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
    • somber in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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    Pronunciation

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    Adjective

    somber (comparative somberder, superlative somberst)

    1. somber (US), sombre (Commonwealth)

    Inflection

    Inflection of somber
    uninflected somber
    inflected sombere
    comparative somberder
    positive comparative superlative
    predicative/adverbial sombersomberderhet somberst
    het somberste
    indefinite m./f. sing. somberesomberderesomberste
    n. sing. sombersomberdersomberste
    plural somberesomberderesomberste
    definite somberesomberderesomberste
    partitive somberssomberders

    Derived terms

    • somberaar
    • somberen
    • somberheid
    • sombermans
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