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'.
- hold good (or true)
- hold hands
- hold hard
- holding
- holding company
- holding game
- holding ground
- holding operation
- holding paddock
- holding pattern
- holding tank
- hold no brief for
- hold off
- hold on
- hold one's breath
- hold one's ground
- hold one's head up (or hold one's head high)
- hold one's horses
- hold one's nose
- hold one's own
- hold one's peace
- hold (one's) serve (or service)
- hold one's tongue
- hold one's whisht
- hold on to