tenebrous

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/
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/ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/ · /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/

Definition of tenebrous

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (also, figuratively, literary)Dark and gloomy; obscure.
    “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.””

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Etymology

] From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”).

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