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tenebrous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tenebrous has 1 sense
- tenebrous(s = adj.all) tenebrific, tenebrious - dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"
CIDE DICTIONARY
tenebrous, a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. ténébreux.].
Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. [1913 Webster]
"The most dark, tenebrous night."
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"The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
tenebrous, adj. literary dark, gloomy.
Etymology
ME f. OF tenebrus f. L tenebrosus (as TENEBRAE)
THESAURUS
tenebrous
ambiguous, amphibological, beamless, black, black as night, caliginous, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, dim, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, equivocal, gloomy, murky, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, sibylline, starless, sunless, tenebrious, tenebrose, uncertain, unclear, unilluminated, unintelligible, unlighted, unlit, vague
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