tenebrous

== English == === Alternative forms === tenebrious === Etymology === From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/, /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/ Hyphenation: ten‧e‧brous === Adjective === tenebrous (comparative more tenebrous, superlative most tenebrous) (literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure. [from 15th c.] Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dark ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === “tenebrous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “tenebrous, a. (n.)”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN. == Old French == === Adjective === tenebrous m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tenebrouse) (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of tenebrus