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[syn: tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious]
The 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.
[1913 Webster]
The most dark, tenebrous night. --J. Hall
(1565).
[1913 Webster]
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
--Longfellow.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tenebrous
adj 1: dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous,
tenebrific, tenebrious]
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