tenebrific

[ ten-uh-brif-ik ]

adjective

1. producing darkness.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tenebrific¹

1640–50; < Latin tenebr ( ae ) darkness + -i- + -fic

Example Sentences

Now begins "the tenebrific passage of the tale."

From Project Gutenberg

It lightens, it brightens The tenebrific scene, To meet with, and greet with My Davie or my Jean!

From Project Gutenberg

They shine like suns, these two, amid multitudes of watery comets and tenebrific constellations, too sorrowful without such admixture on occasion!

From Project Gutenberg

It lightens, it brightens The tenebrific scene, To meet with, and greet with My Davie, or my Jean!

From Project Gutenberg