Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…]
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Tenebrous
//ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs//
Synonyms for "tenebrous" (85 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (26)
Related words (42)
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10 entriesderived
2 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 15 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- խավար adj (dark and gloomy)
- մթին adj (dark and gloomy)
- մռայլ adj (dark and gloomy)
Bulgarian
2 entries- мрачен adj (dark and gloomy)
- сенчест adj (dark and gloomy)
Catalan
1 entries- tenebrós adj (dark and gloomy)
Esperanto
1 entries- tenebra adj (dark and gloomy)
French
2 entries- obscur adj (dark and gloomy)
- ténébreux adj (dark and gloomy)
German
2 entries- Schatten adj (dark and gloomy)
- düster adj (dark and gloomy)
Hungarian
1 entries- komor adj (dark and gloomy)
Ido
1 entries- tenebroza adj (dark and gloomy)
Italian
1 entries- tenebroso adj (dark and gloomy)
Latin
1 entries- tenebrōsus adj (dark and gloomy)
Polish
2 entries- ciemny adj (dark and gloomy)
- ponury adj (dark and gloomy)
Portuguese
2 entries- tenebroso adj (dark and gloomy)
- trevoso adj (dark and gloomy)
Romanian
2 entries- tenebros adj (dark and gloomy)
- întunecat adj (dark and gloomy)
Russian
2 entries- мра́чный adj (dark and gloomy)
- тёмный adj (dark and gloomy)
Spanish
1 entries- tenebroso adj (dark and gloomy)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[…]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.
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White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous.
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Although Ishiguro’s novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emo- tional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, “against tenebrous historical backdrops.”
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