tenebrous – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of tenebrous

Adjective: tenebrous

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore tenebrous
Superlativemost tenebrous

Sample Sentences

  • Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
  • Met in a dusky arch,[…] [1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, chapter II, in Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, part II, page 94:]
  • […]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods. [1992, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, “Troia Vittrice: Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem”, in Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History, Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 174:]
  • White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous. [1993, Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, “Works and Days”, in Natalie Zemon Davis, Arlette Farge, editors, A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 62:]
  • Although Ishiguro’s novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emo- tional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, “against tenebrous historical backdrops.” [2008, Kazuo Ishiguro, “Introduction”, in Brian W. Shaffer, Cynthia F. Wong, editors, Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page xi:]

Etymology

1. ]
2. From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”). See: Latin Adjectives 'tenebrōsus'.