Synonyms for tenebrous

Grammar : Adj

Spell : ten-uh-bruh s

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɛn ə brəs

Top 10 synonyms for tenebrous

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Définition 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

Antonyms for tenebrous

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