| Pronunciation: | | 'tenubrus
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[adj] dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" |
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TENEBROUS is a 9 letter word that starts with T. |
| | Synonyms: | | dark, tenebrific, tenebrious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
The most dark, tenebrous night. --J. Hall
(1565).
The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
--Longfellow.
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