Sombría in english
Somber
pronunciation: sɑmbɜr part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: sɑmbɜr part of speech: adjective
In gestures
sombrío = sombre [somber, -USA] ; grim ; grim-faced ; dark ; murky ; cheerless.
Example: The major source of national library resourcing remains central governments and the general picture of funding is sombre.Example: Anita Schiller's own grim conclusion was that 'These two opposing and often inimical views, when incorporated within reference service, often reduce overall effectiveness'.Example: In the English language, people are described as grim, while in Journalese they are referred to as being 'grim-faced'.Example: The novel is disturbingly dark, violent, and filled with iconoclasm, despair, and paranoia = The novel is disturbingly dark, violent, and filled with iconoclasm, despair, and paranoia.Example: There are extraordinary uncertainties in the murky future of higher education and to change the character of our library at this stage would be too extreme a measure.Example: Her work depicts mostly cheerless and melancholic worlds where the main character is in the center of mental conflicts, sometimes euphoric, sometimes psychotic.more:
» el lado sombrío de = the grim face of .
Example: Every day we encounter the grim face of poverty when we see children in dirty and torn clothes.» llevar una vida sombría = lead + a bleak existence .
Example: While they lead a bleak existence of isolation, danger and loneliness, these men reach out to tell their stories and try to understand their own actions through art.