Tenebrous means "obscure" or "murky," but there's nothing unclear about its history. Etymologists know that the word derives from the Latin noun tenebrae, which means "darkness." "Tenebrous" has been used in English since the 15th century, and in the 20th century it was joined by some interesting relations. "Tenebrionid" is the name of a nocturnal beetle that is usually dark-colored and is also called a "darkling beetle." "Tenebrism" refers to a style of painting - associated with the Italian painter Caravaggio - in which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by concentrated light.
Examples of tenebrous in a Sentence
a tenebrous night with no moon
in the midst of those tenebrous days Thomas Paine penned the immortal words “These are the times that try men's souls”
Middle English tenebrose, tenebrus, borrowed from Anglo-French tenebreus, borrowed from Latin tenebrōsus, from tenebrae "darkness" + -ōsus-ous — more at tenebrae