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tenebrous

Syllables: ten·e·brous/ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/US/ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/

tenebrous adjective: dark and gloomy; obscure.

tenebrous: dark and gloomy; obscure
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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
    • […]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.1992, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, “Troia Vittrice: Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem”, in Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History, Ithaca and London: Cornell...

tenebrous meaning in Bengali

tenebrous in Bengali

অন্ধকারাচ্ছন্ন, রহস্যময়

Synonyms of tenebrous

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Forms of tenebrous

comparativemore tenebrous
superlativemost tenebrous
alternative formtenebrious

Origin of tenebrous

] From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”).

Words formed from tenebrous

Questions about tenebrous

What does tenebrous mean?
Tenebrous means dark and gloomy; obscure.
What is tenebrous in Bengali?
Tenebrous in Bengali is অন্ধকারাচ্ছন্ন, রহস্যময়. See Tenebrous meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is tenebrous?
Tenebrous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce tenebrous?
Tenebrous is pronounced /ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/ (UK).

Words near tenebrous in the dictionary

  1. tenebrizing
  2. tenebrose
  3. tenebrosin
  4. tenebrosins
  5. tenebrosity
  6. tenebrous
  7. tenebrously
  8. tenebrousness
  9. tenebrousnesses
  10. tenecteplase
  11. tenectomies

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