All 3 Uses of
somber
in
The Time Machine
- The bushes were inky black, the ground a sombre grey, the sky colourless and cheerless.†
Chpt 5sombre = serious and without humor or fun -- perhaps sadunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use somber.
- But as it was, the thing that struck me with keenest force was the enormous waste of labour to which this sombre wilderness of rotting paper testified.†
Chpt 8
- Dozens of them seemed to be crawling here and there, in the sombre light, among the foliated sheets of intense green.†
Chpt 11 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(somber as in: a somber mood) serious (without cheer or lightheartedness); or sad
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(2)
(somber as in: somber colors) lacking brightness or color -- perhaps gloomy