sombre

Adjective Satellite

lacking brightness or color; dull
grave or even gloomy in character

Adj

Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.
Dull or dark in colour or brightness.
Melancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
Grave; extremely serious.

Noun

Gloom; obscurity; duskiness.

Verb

To make sombre or dark; to make shady.

Adjective

Having a dark or gloomy character; somber.

Examples

a sombre situation
The sombre lighting of the tournament room added to the intensity of the Words With Friends match.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

drab, melancholy, sober, somber, atrabiliary, atrabilious, austere, bleak, blear, blitheless, blue, bummed out, caliginous, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, cimmerian, comfortless, crepuscular, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, dejected, demure, depressed, depressing, desolate, despondent, dim, dimpsy, dingy, dire, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, dusky, earnest, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, fuliginous, full, fuscous, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grievous, grim, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, inconsolable, infelicitous, inky, intense, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, languid, leaden, lightless, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, mirksome, mirthless, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, murksome, murky, muted, no joke, obscure, passionate, plaintive, querulous, sad, saddened, sage, saturated, saturnine, sedate, serious, shady, shattered, solemn, solemncholy, sombre, sombrous, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, staid, stern, stygian, sullen, sunless, swarthy, sweer, tenebrous, thoughtful, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, twilightish, umbrageous, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unilluminated, unlively, unmerry, weightsome, weighty, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

Scrabble Score: 10

sombre: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
sombre: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sombre: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

sombre: valid Words With Friends Word