Modifies a noun

• mood: My Name is Death returns to a somber mood.

• face: Sheryl was looking at it with a somber face.

• tone: The musical numbers seem thrown in without any creativity, but do give a change of pace to the somber tone to the movie.

• note: Much of the continental work submitted struck a somber note accentuating the squalid conditions of home and town.

• shade: Yes, like the forest, one's life is dappled with somber shades and sunlit patches of great happiness.

• reading: Chapter 7 titled â Prospects for Peace in the Middle Eastâ makes somber reading.

Modifying Another Word

• rather: There are times when worship will be rather somber.

• very: His face was extraordinary in that it was delicate, vulpine, priestly, usually very somber.

Used with adjective complement

• look: The mother looking somber, severe, fearful, angry in a tired kind of way.