Thesaurus / tenebrous
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I can't recall any other detail, but the whole atmosphere was tenebrous and sinister.
THE CAPGRAS SHIFTSAM VAKNINWinged things that were not bats swooped and fluttered in the tenebrous air, whispering sibilantly—whispering in human voices.
THE SECRET OF KRALITZHENRY KUTTNERThe room was well illuminated with gas, whatever might be going on in the streets; to no tenebrous repast were we invited.
GLORIES OF SPAINCHARLES W. WOODOur town was indeed but one vast hospital—orderly, subdued, and tenebrous.
LEAVES FROM A FIELD NOTE-BOOKJ. H. MORGANNever had she looked to Ray so like an eagle, so keen, so fierce, so fit for braving either sun or tenebrous cavern.
THE PRECIPICEELIA WILKINSON PEATTIEThe music was very original; the fireworks were extremely bad, and the illuminations very tenebrous.
SOYER'S CULINARY CAMPAIGNALEXIS SOYERAt what moment will the fierce impurities borne from its somber and tenebrous past be hurled up in you?
SELECTED WORKS OF VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYREVOLTAIRINE DE CLEYREBut her imagination was roving in the dim oil-lit streets of the tenebrous city, striving for the clairvoyance of love.
DREAMERS OF THE GHETTOI. ZANGWILLYour voice is tenebrous, as if An angel mocked a blackbird's pipe.
SILVERPOINTSJOHN GRAYWe find the cloudy or tenebrous sky of night represented in the Ṛigvedas and in the Avesta as aman, or mountain of stone.
ZOOLOGICAL MYTHOLOGY, VOLUME I (OF 2)ANGELO DE GUBERNATISWORDS RELATED TO TENEBROUS
- afflictive
- black
- boring
- cheerless
- cloudy
- dark
- depressed
- depressing
- desolate
- despondent
- dim
- dingy
- disagreeable
- discouraging
- disheartening
- dispiriting
- doleful
- dolorous
- dull
- forlorn
- frowning
- funereal
- ghastly
- gruesome
- hopeless
- horrible
- horrid
- in the pits
- inauspicious
- joyless
- lonesome
- lowering
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- monotonous
- morbid
- murky
- oppressive
- overcast
- sad
- shadowy
- somber
- sorrowful
- tedious
- tenebrous
- troublesome
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- ambiguous
- ambivalent
- amphibological
- borderline
- clear as mud
- clouded
- disreputable
- dubious
- evasive
- fishy
- fuzzy
- hazy
- indefinite
- indeterminate
- indistinct
- misleading
- muddled
- muzzy
- oblique
- obscure
- open
- problematic
- puzzling
- questionable
- suspect
- suspicious
- tenebrous
- unclear
- undecided
- unexplicit
- unintelligible
- vague
- with mixed feelings
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