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Tenebrious

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WordDefinition
darknounHaving an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
tenebrous(literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.
tenebrificProducing darkness, obscuring; (loosely) gloomy.

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tenebrificProducing darkness, obscuring; (loosely) gloomy.
tenebrous(literary, also figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure.
darknounHaving an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
somberUS standard spelling of sombre. [Dark; gloomy; shadowy, dimly lit.]
dark heartedAlternative form of dark-hearted. [Malevolent; cold and cruel.]
crepusculousAlternative form of crepuscular. [Of or resembling twilight; dim.]
umbraticalAlternative form of umbratic. [(archaic) Of or relating to the shade or darkness; shadowy.]
cinerousnounAlternative form of cinereous (“ash-colored”). [(chiefly ornithology) Of an ash-gray colour.]
slumbrousAlternative form of slumberous. [Sleepy, drowsy.]
dimlitnounAlternative form of dim-lit. [Dimly illuminated.]
tomentousAlternative form of tomentose. [(biology, of a surface) covered in (often matted) hair.]
limb darkenedAlternative form of limb-darkened. [(physics, astronomy) Darkened by limb darkening.]
æneousAlternative form of aeneous. [Bronze-colored.]
gray-hairedAlternative form of grey-haired. [Having grey hair.]
gravellousAlternative form of gravelous. [Synonym of gravelly.]
tear-stainedAlternative form of tearstained. [Stained with tears.]
splendaciousAlternative form of splendaceous. [(informal) wonderful; splendid]
blue-greyAlternative form of blue-gray. [Of a bluish grey color.]
teiresianAlternative form of Tiresian. [Relating to Tiresias.]
forbodingnounAlternative form of foreboding. [A sense of evil to come.]

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