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Synonyms & Antonyms of somber
- the prison's somber interrogation room has the desired effect of striking fear and despair into the prisoner
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- ablaze,
- agleam,
- aglitter,
- alight,
- beaming,
- beamy,
- effulgent,
- glaring,
- glowing,
- incandescent,
- lambent,
- radiant,
- relucent,
- resplendent,
- shining,
- sparkling
- floodlit
- (also floodlighted),
- highlighted,
- spotlighted
- (or spotlit)
Antonyms for somber
- the somber occasion of a dear friend's funeral
Synonyms for somber
- black,
- bleak,
- cheerless,
- chill,
- Cimmerian,
- cloudy,
- cold,
- comfortless,
- dark,
- darkening,
- depressing,
- depressive,
- desolate,
- dire,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- drear,
- dreary,
- dreich
- [chiefly Scottish],
- elegiac
- (also elegiacal),
- forlorn,
- funereal,
- gloomy,
- glum,
- godforsaken,
- gray
- (also grey),
- lonely,
- lonesome,
- lugubrious,
- miserable,
- morbid,
- morose,
- murky,
- plutonian,
- saturnine,
- sepulchral,
- solemn,
- sullen,
- sunless,
- tenebrific,
- tenebrous,
- wretched
Words Related to somber
- blue,
- dejected,
- depressed,
- despondent,
- down,
- droopy,
- hangdog,
- inconsolable,
- low,
- melancholic,
- melancholy,
- mirthless,
- sad,
- unhappy,
- woebegone,
- woeful
- dim,
- discomfiting,
- discouraging,
- disheartening,
- dismaying,
- dispiriting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- upsetting
- dour,
- grim,
- lowering
- (also louring),
- lowery
- (also loury),
- menacing,
- negative,
- oppressive,
- threatening
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The first known use of somber was in 1760
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