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Antonyms for tenebrous

Grammar : Adj
Spell : ten-uh-bruh s
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn ə brəs

Definition of tenebrous

Origin :
  • "full of darkness," early 15c., from Old French tenebreus (11c.), from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae "darkness" (see temerity).
  • adj dark, ominous
Example sentences :
  • Your voice is tenebrous, as if An angel mocked a blackbird's pipe.
  • Extract from : « Silverpoints » by John Gray
  • But her imagination was roving in the dim oil-lit streets of the tenebrous city, striving for the clairvoyance of love.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Never had she looked to Ray so like an eagle, so keen, so fierce, so fit for braving either sun or tenebrous cavern.
  • Extract from : « The Precipice » by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
  • At what moment will the fierce impurities borne from its somber and tenebrous past be hurled up in you?
  • Extract from : « Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre » by Voltairine de Cleyre
  • Winged things that were not bats swooped and fluttered in the tenebrous air, whispering sibilantly—whispering in human voices.
  • Extract from : « The Secret of Kralitz » by Henry Kuttner
  • The room was well illuminated with gas, whatever might be going on in the streets; to no tenebrous repast were we invited.
  • Extract from : « Glories of Spain » by Charles W. Wood
  • I can't recall any other detail, but the whole atmosphere was tenebrous and sinister.
  • Extract from : « The Capgras Shift » by Sam Vaknin
  • We find the cloudy or tenebrous sky of night represented in the Ṛigvedas and in the Avesta as aman, or mountain of stone.
  • Extract from : « Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2) » by Angelo de Gubernatis
  • We have said that the tenebrous darkness of last night had not prepared us for the charms of to-day.
  • Extract from : « Glories of Spain » by Charles W. Wood
  • This spot, however small, is enough to betray his tenebrous nature.
  • Extract from : « Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2) » by Angelo de Gubernatis

Synonyms for tenebrous

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