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Meaning of TENEBRIFIC

Pronunciation:  `tenu'brifik

 
WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
[adj]  dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave"
 

TENEBRIFIC is a 10 letter word that starts with T.

 

 Synonyms: dark, tenebrious, tenebrous
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ten`e*brif"ic\, a. [L. tenebrae darkness + facere to
make.]
Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.

      It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene.
                                               --Burns.

      Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. --R.
                                               Browning.

 

 

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