tenebrous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tenebrous
    adj 1: dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: {tenebrous},
           {tenebrific}, {tenebrious}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         The most dark, tenebrous night.          --J. Hall
                                                  (1565).
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         The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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