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tenebrous

Word definitions for tenebrous in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International 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. The most dark, tenebrous night. --J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tenebrous is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics cosmic entity appearing as an enemy of Galactus .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. dark and gloomy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"full of darkness," late 15c., from Old French tenebros "dark, gloomy" (11c., Modern French ténébreux ), from Latin tenebrosus "dark," from tenebrae "darkness" (see temerity ). Related: Tenebrosity .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrific , tenebrious ]

Usage examples of tenebrous.

Vaster and vaster loomed the tenebrous towers of the nighted castle above, and Carter could see that it was well-nigh blasphemous in its immensity.

The everyday conversational of Art is now the tenebrous chatty-talk of academics and goony writers like me.

And before the day was done Carter saw that the steersman could have no other goal than the Basalt Pillars of the West, beyond which simple folk say splendid Cathuria lies, but which wise dreamers well know are the gates of a monstrous cataract wherein the oceans of earth's dreamland drop wholly to abysmal nothingness and shoot through the empty spaces toward other worlds and other stars and the awful voids outside the ordered universe where the daemon sultan Azathoth gnaws hungrily in chaos amid pounding and piping and the hellish dancing of the Other Gods, blind, voiceless, tenebrous, and mindless, with their soul and messenger Nyarlathotep.