Tenebrous (adj)
ten-e-brus
Dark; shadowy or obsure.
Late Middle English via Old French from Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae ‘darkness’.
Example sentences
“The tenebrous staircase stood in shadowy light.”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…
