TENEBROUS

Ten″e‐brous (?), a. [[L. tenebrosus, fr. tenebrae darkness: cf. F. ténébreux.]] Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. — Ten″e‐brous‐ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.