- Tenebrious
- Tenebrious Te*ne"bri*ous, a. Tenebrous. --Young. [1913 Webster]
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Tenebrious
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tenebrious — adjective Etymology: by alteration Date: 1594 tenebrous … New Collegiate Dictionary
tenebrious — adj. tenebrous, gloomy, dark, dim … English contemporary dictionary
tenebrious — a. See tenebrous … New dictionary of synonyms
tenebrious — te·neb·ri·ous … English syllables
tenebrious — adjective dark and gloomy a tenebrous cave • Syn: ↑tenebrous, ↑tenebrific • Similar to: ↑dark … Useful english dictionary
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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Tenebrousness — 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tenebrous — tenebrousness, n. /ten euh breuhs/, adj. dark; gloomy; obscure. Also, tenebrious /teuh neb ree euhs/. [1375 1425; late ME < L tenebrosus. See TENEBRAE, OUS] * * * … Universalium
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dark — Synonyms and related words: Egyptian darkness, Erebus, Gothicism, Stygian, ableptical, abominable, abstruse, adiaphanous, age of ignorance, amaurotic, amoral, amorphous, amorphousness, apocalyptic, arcane, arrant, atramentous, atrocious, bad,… … Moby Thesaurus
