- tenebrious
- adjective Etymology: by alteration Date: 1594 tenebrous
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tenebrious
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Tenebrious — Te*ne bri*ous, a. Tenebrous. Young. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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
black — Synonyms and related words: American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Brunswick black, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, Stygian, WASP, abominable, absolute,… … Moby Thesaurus
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
