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'.
- nail-keg
- nailless
- nail-like
- nail-maker
- nail-making
- nail one's colours to the mast
- nail (or pin) one's colours to the mast
- nail parer
- nail-paring
- nail-passer
- nail-plate
- nail polish
- nail polisher
- nail polish remover
- nail punch
- nailrod
- nail scissors
- Nailsea
- nail set
- nail-sick
- nail sickness
- nail someone down
- nail something down
- nail-tailed wallaby
- nailtail wallaby