American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - adj. Dark; gloomy. - adj. Dull or dark in color. -
adj. Melancholy; dismal: a somber mood. - adj. Serious; grave.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - Dark; dull; dusky; gloomy:
as, a somber hue; somber clouds. - Dismal; melancholy; dull:
opposed to cheerful. - Synonyms Darksome, cloudy, murky. - To
make somber, dark, or gloomy; shade. GNU Webster's 1913 - adj.
Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy. - adj. Melancholy; sad;
grave; depressing. - v. rare To make somber, or dark; to make
shady. - n. obsolete Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness. -
adj. lacking brightness or color; dull. - adj. grave or even
gloomy in character - From French sombre ("shady, gloomy"), from
Spanish sombra ("shade, dark part of a picture, also a ghost"),
probably from Latin *subumbrare, from sub ("under") + umbra
("shade"). (Wiktionary) - French sombre, from Old French, from
*sombrer, to cast a shadow, from Late Latin subumbrāre, from
Latin sub umbrā, in shadow :