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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
tenebrous
    adj 1: dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave" [syn: tenebrous,
           tenebrific, tenebrious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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         The most dark, tenebrous night.          --J. Hall
                                                  (1565).
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         The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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Thesaurus Results for Tenebrous:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
ambiguous, amphibological, beamless, black, black as night, caliginous, dark, dark as night, dark as pitch, darkling, darksome, dim, dusk, dusky, ebon, ebony, eclipsed, equivocal, gloomy, murky, night-black, night-clad, night-cloaked, night-dark, night-enshrouded, night-filled, night-mantled, night-veiled, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occulted, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, sibylline, starless, sunless, tenebrious, tenebrose, uncertain, unclear, unilluminated, unintelligible, unlighted, unlit, vague
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