SOMBRE

adj. 1 gloomy, morose, lugubrious, funereal, morbid, louring or lowering, melancholy, sad, dismal, unhappy, cheerless, joyless, serious, sober, doleful, dolorous, mournful, depressed, depressing, grave, grim, grim-faced, grim-visaged, Literary melancholic, darksome Despite his sombre appearance, Sid was one of the funniest men I've ever met 2 dark, gloomy, foreboding, bleak, depressing, shadowy, murky, leaden, grey, black, dismal, dreary, overcast, dusky, dim, dingy, darkling, dull, subfusc or subfuscous The sombre sky set the mood for the proceedings that were to follow 3 staid, sedate, sober, solemn, dark, dull, subfusc A young person like you ought to dress in less sombre colours