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tenebrious

tenebrious is the alternative form of tenebrous.

Meaning of tenebrous

Adjective

tenebrous (comparative more tenebrous, superlative most tenebrous)

  1. (also, figuratively, literary) Dark and gloomy; obscure.
    • Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
      Met in a dusky arch,[…]1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part II, page 94

Forms of tenebrious

comparativemore tenebrious
superlativemost tenebrious

Questions about tenebrious

What is tenebrious the alternative form of?
Tenebrious is the alternative form of tenebrous.

Words near tenebrious in the dictionary

  1. tenebrificous
  2. tenebrionid
  3. tenebrionids
  4. tenebrionoid
  5. tenebrionoids
  6. tenebrious
  7. tenebriously
  8. tenebrism
  9. tenebrist
  10. tenebristic
  11. tenebrists

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