tenebrous
/ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…]"
- "[…]and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods."
- "White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous."
- "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.”"
Etymology
] From Middle English tenebrose, from Anglo-Norman tenebrous (earlier tenebrus), from Latin tenebrōsus, itself from tenebrae (“darkness, shadows”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/
- British English: /ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/