Tenebricose

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous. rare

    "Tene′bricose. […] Dark; gloomy."

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"Tene′bricose. […] Dark; gloomy."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tenebricōsus (“full of darkness or gloom”), from tenebricus (“dark, gloomy”) + -ose (“full of”).

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