Tenebrous

Quick meaning: Tenebrous is an adjective meaning (literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.

Meaning

(literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.

Example Sentences

Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…]

[…]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.

White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous.

Although Ishiguro’s novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emo- tional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, “against tenebrous historical backdrops.”

Word Forms

• tenebrious

Synonyms for tenebrous

Depending on context, synonyms include blear, caliginous, cimmerian, crepuscular, dark, darksome.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tenebrific, tenebrious, dark, tenebricose, tenebrose, darksome.

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