tenebrous
/ˈtɛnɪbrəs
/adjective literary
Dark; shadowy or obscure: the tenebrous spiral staircase of the self...
- His greatest scenes happen at night, and the characters in these tenebrous situations are seen, like specters, emerging from shadows.
- I remember how I liked to feel his presence around me, to hear that deep, tenebrous voice.
- These girls were kept in tenebrous seclusion, suspended between life and death, until marriage.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae 'darkness'.
- scare (or bore etc.) the pants off someone
- scare quotes
- scarer
- scare something up
- scare story
- scare tactic
- scare the bejesus out of
- scareware
- scarf
- scarfed
- scarfie
- scarf ring
- scarf-skin
- scarification
- scarifier
- scarify
- scarily
- scariness
- scarlatina
- scarlatinal
- scarlatiniform
- scarlatinoid
- scarlatinous
- Scarlatti
- scarless