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tenebrous

/ten-uh-bruhs/US // ˈtɛn ə brəs //UK // (ˈtɛnəbrəs) //

坚韧的,韧带,韧皮,坚韧不拔

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dark; gloomy; obscure.

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Examples

  • The Republicans, however, sat with tenebrous expressions that matched the black curtain hiding their legs.

  • I can't recall any other detail, but the whole atmosphere was tenebrous and sinister.

  • Winged things that were not bats swooped and fluttered in the tenebrous air, whispering sibilantly—whispering in human voices.

  • The room was well illuminated with gas, whatever might be going on in the streets; to no tenebrous repast were we invited.

  • Our town was indeed but one vast hospital—orderly, subdued, and tenebrous.

  • Never had she looked to Ray so like an eagle, so keen, so fierce, so fit for braving either sun or tenebrous cavern.