Usually means: Dark and shadowy; obscurely gloomy.
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  1. tenebrous: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenebrous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenebrous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenebrous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenebrous: Vocabulary.com
  6. tenebrous: Wordnik
  7. tenebrous: Wiktionary
  8. tenebrous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tenebrous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tenebrous: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tenebrous: Dictionary.com
  12. tenebrous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tenebrous (Marvel Comics): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tenebrous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tenebrous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tenebrous: Rhymezone
  17. Tenebrous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tenebrous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. tenebrous: FreeDictionary.org
  20. tenebrous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. tenebrous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tenebrous: A Word A Day

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▸ adjective:  (literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.

Similar:
tenebrific, tenebrious, dark, tenebricose, tenebrose, darksome, nightlike, tenebrescent, shadowy, murky, more...

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    black,     charcoal,     onyx,     obsidian,     midnight blue, more...
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tenebrific, tenebrious, dark, tenebricose, tenebrose, darksome, nightlike, tenebrescent, shadowy, murky, more...

Colors:
    black,     charcoal,     onyx,     obsidian,     midnight blue, more...



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