tenebrous

Definition

Dark and gloomy; obscure.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…]"
• "[…]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods."
• "White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous."