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[ US /ˈtɛnəbɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. dark and gloomy
    a tenebrous cave

How To Use tenebrous In A Sentence

  • He has been so little read that four specimens of his different manners -- the early "tenebrous" style of _The A History of Elizabethan Literature
  • “The Fiddler of Bayou Teche” by Delia Sherman is Southern fantasy with a tenebrous twist. Books in 2009, #12
  • Tonal mists begird the senses like thick, expanding fog, as the sparse calls of exotic birds and invisible creatures enhances the presence of this tenebrous abode of tranquility.
  • How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be. CHAPTER 19
  • These girls were kept in tenebrous seclusion, suspended between life and death, until marriage.
  • The crew bunks in a decaying hotel with infinitely unfurling tenebrous corridors.
  • Then the cave was restored to its former state of tenebrous gloom. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
  • She is gifted a lesson on Napoleon's maxim — "force equals mass times velocity" — and corrected in her pronunciation of "tenebrous," which, says Black, should be "ten-E-brous. Shades of Black
  • Fortunately, he wasn't there, and Conrad turned in to the leafy, tenebrous cool of Miankoma Lane. AMAGANSETT
  • We have grown to expect people to be tenebrous, to be evil.
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