Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tenebricose

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tene-bri-cose
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous.

Example Sentences

"Tene′bricose. […] Dark; gloomy."
"[…] but he has grown wiser since he has been in my library; and by reflecting very deeply on the degree in which the manner of his construction might influence the forms of his perception, has taken a very opaque and tenebricose view of how much of the spheroidical perception belongs to the object, which is the sphere, and how much to the subject, which is himself, in his quality of cylindrical mirror."
"Verse was the elder born—plain prose / Came limping on in after ages; / When mind became tenebricose, / And dulness reign’d on all its pages."
"The usual tenebricose ensigns of majesty which distinguish Pluto, are a key instead of a sceptre, and an ebony crown."
"More luminous smiles—from a broad-cheeked face dark as the tenebricose pit."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin tenebricōsus (“full of darkness or gloom”), from tenebricus (“dark, gloomy”) + -ose (“full of”).

Word Breakdown

Root: *temH-

Inflected Forms

more tenebricose (comparative) most tenebricose (superlative)

Questions

What does tenebricose mean?: Full of darkness; gloomy, tenebrous.
Where does tenebricose come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin tenebricōsus (“full of darkness or gloom”), from tenebricus (“dark, gloomy”) + -ose (“full of”).

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