Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Dark and gloomy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Dark; gloomy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Dark and gloomy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. dark and gloomy
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French tenebreus, from Latin tenebrōsus, from tenebrae, darkness.
Examples
“She is gifted a lesson on Napoleon's maxim — "force equals mass times velocity" — and corrected in her pronunciation of "tenebrous," which, says Black, should be "ten-E-brous.”
“He has been so little read that four specimens of his different manners -- the early "tenebrous" style of _The”
“How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be.”
“Wings of tenebrous leather tore through my T-shirt, and my fangs and claws became disproportionate to my size as I turned into the uber vamp.”
“The skin on my back broke open and I looked sideways at the tenebrous wings that sprung forth.”
““The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman is Southern fantasy with a tenebrous twist.”
“In the context of this exhibition, the shift is announced in a tenebrous work by Vittore Belliniano, a very obscure artist, but also a very good one, who has learned all that is most important from Giorgione and Giovanni Bellini regarding the breathing, lifelike depiction of the human face and form.”
“• This year's Mother's Day issue, which had features on a mother and her autistic son and on the quadruple amputee, which was in process at the time that Weymouth attacked it as typical of the magazine's tenebrous tendencies.”
The Huffington Post: WaPo Pulitzer Criticism: Ombudsman Alexander Responds
“It seems as if they have been our companions for a very long time now; yet every day we are summoned anew to high adventure on the tenebrous seas of the soul.”
The Huffington Post: Embracing the New: Avoiding a Routinized Life
“However, after the secret services abandon their investigations the case is picked up by an "unidentified researcher", who takes the already tenebrous data from which the couple's story has been reconstructed?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tenebrous’.
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briwref's list
defalcation, macerate, beldam, nescience, ochlocracy, bibelot, estivate, spatulated, introversive, mastoidal, belletristic, objurgation and 108 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7762 more...
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Heart of Darkness
words collected reading Heart of Darkness
abject, tenebrous, obsequiously, precipice, craven, candour, sepulchral, languid
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vocabulous
autarkic, ineluctable, productivist, teleology, imperious, Balkanization, phytosanitary, inedia, algesia, protean, tenebrous, libretto and 10 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 85 more...
pikachu And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mysterious seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.
-Heart of Darkness (Conrad) Mar 19, 2011
sera "dark and gloomy" Aug 13, 2007
sera darkness is tenebrous Aug 13, 2007