tenebrous

3 definitions found

tenebrous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tenebrous \Ten"e*brous\, a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae
     darkness: cf. F. t['e]n['e]breux.]
     Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n.
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           The most dark, tenebrous night.          --J. Hall
                                                    (1565).
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           The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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tenebrous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tenebrous
      adj 1: dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous,
             tenebrific, tenebrious]

tenebrous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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