sombrous
English
Etymology
From French sombre + -ous. Compare Spanish sombroso.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɒmbɹəs/
Adjective
sombrous (comparative more sombrous, superlative most sombrous)
- Gloomy; sombre.
- 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘Prelude’:
- Before me rose an avenue / Of tall and sombrous pines; / Abroad their fan-like branches grew, / And, where the sunshine darted through, / Spread a vapor soft and blue, / In long and sloping lines.
- 2001, Anthea Bell, translating WG Sebald, Austerlitz, Penguin 2011, p. 2:
- It was some time before my eyes became used to its artificial dusk, and I could make out the different animals leading their sombrous lives behind the glass by the light of a pale moon.
- 1839, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ‘Prelude’:
Related terms
- sombrously
- sombrousness
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