sombre
The night started sombrely with a minute's silence.
They walked sombrely to court yesterday at the start of a fresh ordeal.
He is dressed casually, if sombrely, in black.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Lacking humour
a laugh a minuteidiom
be no laughing matteridiom
beyond
beyond a jokeidiom
earnestly
earnestness
humourlessly
intense
lightly
saturnine
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombreness
starchy
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly
ultra-serious
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