| 单词 | tenebrous |
| 释义 | tenebrous (once / 88204 pages) adj Tenebrous means dark and shadowy. Your big, spooky house with its long, tenebrous passageways and dark corners would be a perfect place to have a Halloween party. The adjective tenebrous is a perfect way to describe something that's dark and creepy, like a weirdly shadowed room in a castle or a gloomy cave. You can also use tenebrous to talk about things that are figuratively dark, or obscure, like a tenebrous deal made between a city's mayor and the Mafia. The Latin root word, tenebrosus, simply means "darkness." WORD FAMILYtenebrous USAGE EXAMPLESBut there is also some extra-musical layer — some theme, celestial or human, in the grappling and rocking of couples — that is too opaque, too tenebrous. New York Times(Jul 08, 2016) His motives and history are unclear, a purposely cryptic and tenebrous presence. BBC(Mar 29, 2015) She cannot persuade Felicia to take off her nightgown, to allow light in the tenebrous house. Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban(1992) adj dark and gloomy a tenebrous cave Syn Stygian, tenebrific, tenebrious dark devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black |
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