tenebrous UK /ˈtɛn.ɪ.bɹəs/US /ˈtɛn.ə.bɹəs/ adjective1 •(literary) Dark and gloomy; obscure.Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch,[…] — 1847 formsmore tenebrous · most tenebrous