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Meanings of
somberness
in English
Portuguese
pessimismo
Catalan
foscúria
Spanish
oscuridad
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A manner that is serious and solemn.
gloom
gravity
sobriety
soberness
gloominess
sombreness
graveness
Portuguese
pessimismo
Usage of
somberness
in English
1
The landscape too has nothing of the seriousness and
somberness
of ours.
2
She was not discontented, save at the enforced
somberness
of their lives.
3
The occasional rolling thunder of a cannon deepened the
somberness
of the scene.
4
A fleeting grin broke the impassive
somberness
of the black face.
5
It must be a
somberness
of disposition that affects my eyesight.
6
She felt her mirth drain and
somberness
cross her, shadowlike.
7
The smile vanished as swiftly as it had arrived and the stark
somberness
returned.
8
More
somberness
,
when he was determined not to be somber.
9
Silvanos said, before his eyes betrayed a hint of
somberness
.
10
But over the men and over the women there was a waiting, a
somberness
.
11
Pleydon, however, wouldn't speak; nothing broke the
somberness
of his passionate absorption in invisible tyrannies.
12
There was a suggestion of
somberness
in her eyes as she looked down at him.
13
It was as if the
somberness
of those wind-swept woods had crept into his cabin.
14
But all this
somberness
of nature brought comfort and lightness of heart to the besieged.
15
He tried to sound light, though he was deeply disturbed by the dwarfs unusual
somberness
.
16
The half-murk that at first was mystery and enchantment began to put on
somberness
and melancholy.
Other examples for "somberness"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
somberness
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
unusual somberness
certain somberness
bleak somberness
break the somberness
enforce somberness
More collocations
Translations for
somberness
Portuguese
pessimismo
Catalan
foscúria
pessimisme
fosca
foscor
Spanish
oscuridad
pesimismo
Somberness
through the time