'Tenebrous' definitions:
Definition of 'tenebrous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous, tenebrific, tenebrious]
Definition of 'Tenebrous'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'tenebrous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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