tenebrous

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ten=e=brous

CIDE DICTIONARY

tenebrous, a. [L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. ténébreux.].

 Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.  [1913 Webster]
"The most dark, tenebrous night."  [1913 Webster]
"The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress."  [1913 Webster]

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