Definition of "tenebrous" [ten•e•brous]

• Dark and gloomy. (adjective)

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• "She is gifted a lesson on Napoleon's maxim — "force equals mass times velocity" — and corrected in her pronunciation of "tenebrous," which, says Black, should be "ten-E-brous.""
• "He has been so little read that four specimens of his different manners -- the early "tenebrous" style of _The"
• "How-ha grunted, and yielded up the obedience she could not withhold; though, as she went down the stairs to the door, in a tenebrous, glimmering way she wondered that the accident of white skin or swart made master or servant as the case might be."