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Tenebrous

//ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Dark and gloomy; obscure. also, figuratively, literary

    "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    dark and gloomy wordnet

Etymology

] From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”).

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