Tenebrous

Definition: Tenebrous

Tenebrous

Adjective

1. Dark and gloomy; "a tenebrous cave".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tenebrous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1864. (references)

Synonyms: Tenebrous

Crosswords: Tenebrous

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, winterly, wintry), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, secret, shady, somber, sombre). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مظلم (black, dark, dim, dun, dusk, gloomy, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, overcast). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сумрачен (crepuscular, dun, dusk, twilighted, twilit), сенчест (shadowy, shady, umbrageous), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, thick, tristful). (various references)

German

dunkel (abstruse, black, bleak, dark, darkness, dim, dingy, dismal, dreamy, dreary, dubious, dusky, gloomy, grave, keep in the dark, lightless, murky, obscure, obscurely, obscureness, obscurity, opaque, recondite, shadily, shady, somber, somberly, sombre, swarthily, swarthy, vague, vaguely). (various references)

Greek 

ζοφερόσ (cheerless, dismal, gloomy, mirk, murk, somber, sombre). (various references)

Hebrew 

קו�"ר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, morose, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen), חשוך (dark, murky). (various references)

Hungarian

sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian). (various references)

Pig Latin

enebroustay

Portuguese

tenebroso (dark, gloomy, sable, stygian). (various references)

Romanian

tenebros (dark, gloomy, shadowy), obscur (abstruse, cloudy, confused, dark, darksome, dim, dull, entangled, foggy, gloomy, indistinct, murk, obscure, obscurely, recondite, unknown, unnoticed), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, glum, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre). (various references)

Russian 

темный (black, blackish, blind, cimmerian, dark, darksome, dun, gloomy, ignorant, lowering, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, sable, shadowy, shady, somber, sombre, sunless, unlit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

taman (dark, dim, just, just right, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, narrow, near, opaque), mračan (bleak, dark, darksome, dim, dusky, gloomy, mirk, mirky, murk, murky, obscure, somber, sombre). (various references)

Spanish

tenebroso (dark, dismal, gloomy, loweringly, mirk, murk, murky, obfuscatory). (various references)

Thai

มื�" (black, mirky). (various references)

Turkish

koyu (black, crusted, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, intense, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, somber, sombre, stiff, strong, thick), kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, waste), karanlık (clouded, dark, darkling, darkness, deep, deepness, dun, dusky, foggy, funny, funny peculiar, gloom, gloominess, gloomy, inkiness, murk, murky, night, obscuration, obscure, obscurity, pitchy, shadow, shadowy, shady, somber, somberness, sombre, sombreness, unlit). (various references)

Ukranian 

похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly). (various references)

Vietnamese 

u ám (dull, gloomy, heavy, murky, overcast). (various references)

Misspellings

"Tenebrous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tenebous, Tenebrae, tenebris, tenebruous, teterous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: burstone, tubenose, tuberose.

-2 letters: boneset, boreens, bournes, brunets, bunters, burnets, burtons, butenes, enrobes, estrone, neuters, obtuser, outseen, retunes, sorbent, subrent, subteen, subtone, tenours, tenures, tonsure, tureens, unrobes, unsober.

-3 letters: berets, betons, boners, boreen, bourne, bourns, bourse, brents, brunet, brunts, brutes, bunter, burets, burnet, burton, buster, butene, buteos, enrobe, ensure, enters, enures, nester, nestor, neuter, noters, obtuse, ouster, outers, outsee, rebuts, renest, rentes, resent, retune, retuse, robust, rouens, routes, sorbet, souter, stereo, stoner, stoure, strobe, subnet, suborn, tenors, tenour, tenser, tensor, tenues, tenure, ternes, toners, treens, trones, tubers, tuners, turbos, tureen, unrest, unrobe.

-4 letters: beers, beets, benes, bents, beret, beset, besot, beton, boner, bones, bonus, bores, borne, borts, bosun, bourn, bouse, bouts, brees, brens, brent, brose, brunt, brute, bunts, buret, burns, burnt, burse, burst, buteo, butes, ebons, ensue, enter, enure, ernes, erose, ester, euros, nerts, noter, notes, nurse, obese, onset, outer, outre, rebus, rebut, reest, rente, rents, reset, reuse, robes, roset, rotes, rouen, roues, rouse, roust, route, routs, rubes, runes, runts, senor, sente, seton, sneer, snore, snort, snout, sober, steer, steno, stere, stern, stone, store, stour, suber, teens, tenor, tense, terne, terns, terse, toner, tones, tonus, tores, torse, torus, tours, touse, treen, trees, trone, trues, tuber, tubes, tuner, tunes, turbo, turns, unset.

-5 letters: been, beer, bees, beet, bene, bens, bent, best, bets, bone, bore, born, bort, bots, bout, bree, bren, bros, brut, buns, bunt, burn, burs, bust, bute, buts, ebon, eons, erne, erns, eros, erst, euro, nebs, nest, nets, nobs, noes, nose, note, nous, nubs, nuts, obes, ones, onus, orbs, ores, orts, ours, oust, outs, rebs, rees, rent, rest, rete, rets, robe, robs, roes, rose, rote, rots, roue, rout, rube, rubs, rues, rune, runs, runt, ruse, rust, ruts, seen, seer, sene, sent, sere, snob, snot, snub, sone, sorb, sore, sorn, sort, sour, stob, stub, stun, suer, suet, sure, teen, tees, tens, tern, toes, tone, tons, tore, torn, tors, tour, tree, true, tube, tubs, tune, tuns, turn, unbe, unto, urbs, urns, user.

+1 letter: tenebrious.

+3 letters: beardtongues, boutonnieres, obdurateness, outbreedings, robustnesses.

+4 letters: obtrusiveness, protuberances, subgeneration, subgovernment, subterraneous.

+5 letters: boisterousness, bouleversement, butyrophenones, nonreturnables, obduratenesses, rediscountable, stubbornnesses, subgenerations, subgovernments, superabsorbent.

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