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tenebrous

adjective/ˈtɛnɪbrəs/

C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister

Dark, shadowy and obscure.

The path wound into a tenebrous grove where the canopy shut out almost all the light.

Similar: shadowy, murky, gloomy

Origin: From Latin tenebrae 'darkness'.

Topic: light / dark in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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