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adj. - Dark and gloomy.

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Usage examples (8)
  • No life-problem need remain unsolved with their bright spears to drive the tenebrious mists before them.
  • Creed, divided it into an upper and an under, or nether world, which they connected by a sinuous and tenebrious passage.
  • Inside he gazed through a long vista under a roof lost in tenebrious shadow.
  • All this therefore passes before him with a tenebrious glimmer; like lightning faintly penetrating to a man behind a thick black curtain.
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