tenebrific

ten·e·brif·ic

adjective \ˌte-nə-ˈbri-fik\

Definition of TENEBRIFIC

1

: gloomy

2

: causing gloom or darkness

Examples of TENEBRIFIC

1. <a man unexpectedly emerged from the tenebrific shadows of the cave>
2. <soldiers who had lived for months in the tenebrific trenches that stretched along the western front>

Origin of TENEBRIFIC

Latin tenebrae darkness

First Known Use: 1785

Related to TENEBRIFIC

Synonyms

black, caliginous, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), stygian, dark, tenebrous, unlit

Antonyms

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

Related Words

crepuscular, twilit; moonless, starless, sunless; cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster; shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling; ultrabright; glossy, lustrous, shiny; floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Rhymes with TENEBRIFIC

anaglyphic, beatific, calorific, colorific, felicific, frigorific, hieroglyphic, honorific, scientific, soporific, South Pacific, sudorific