tenebrous

adjective /ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/

1. Dark and gloomy; obscure.

   figuratively, literary

   Met in a dusky arch,[…]

   Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress

Where it comes from

] From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tenebrous (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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