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語源

Borrowed from French sombre (“dark”), from Old French sombre, from a verb *sombrer or Latin sub- +‎ umbra. Compare Spanish sombra (“shade; dark part of a picture; ghost”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɒmbə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɑmbɚ/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈsɒmbəɹ/, [sɔ̃ː.bɹ(ə)]
• 韻: -ɒmbə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: som‧bre

形容詞

sombre (comparative sombrer, superlative sombrest) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.

   Synonyms: bleak, dreary; see also Thesaurus:cheerless

   • 2015, Hermann Kauders, Before The Cock Crows, →ISBN, page 9:

     The lady led him into a sombre hallway and disappeared. A moment later the windowless chamber was illuminated by the entry of a heavenly creature emitting a radiance prone to pierce the heart of any youth exposed to it.

   • 1955 July, D. S. Barrie, “Railways of the Bridgend District”, in Railway Magazine, page 449:

     All three parallel valleys of the Llynvi, Garw and Ogmore are much the same in physical character: the lower reaches are wooded and not unattractive, but as the railway climbs on ever-steepening grades, the hills on either hand grow barer and closer together, while in all respects the scene becomes more sombre, with the terraced, slate-roofed colliery towns and the road, railway and river all struggling for space in the narrowing defiles.

2. Dull or dark in colour or brightness.

   Synonyms: fuscous, inky; see also Thesaurus:dark, Thesaurus:dark colour

   • 1877, The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight, page 47:

     His tall and slender figure, dressed in sombre black, his hair of that peculiar reddish auburn so rarely seen, his flashing black eyes, in which a fitful fire seemed for ever burning; all combined to give something almost of a demoniac air ...

3. Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.

   Synonyms: despondent, unhappy; see also Thesaurus:sad

   • 1845, B[enjamin] Disraeli, Sybil; or The Two Nations. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     The dinner was silent and sombre; happily it was also short.

   • 1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […], published 1904, →OCLC:

     It was a wonder that he had not been a victim of the ferocious and summary executions which marked the course of that tyranny; for Guzman had ruled the country with the sombre imbecility of political fanaticism.

   • 2012, Peter Turnbull, Aftermath, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN:

     A sombre mood, very sombre in fact, thought Hennessey, as he stood against the wall observing the procedure for the police. He had not known a mood more sombre to have previously descended on the room.

4. Grave; extremely serious.

   Synonyms: earnest, staid; see also Thesaurus:serious

   a sombre situation

別の表記

• somber (US)

派生語

名詞

sombre (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.

動詞

sombre (third-person singular simple present sombres, present participle sombring, simple past and past participle sombred)

1. To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

参照

• “sombre”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Bomers, bromes, ombres, somber