Word of the Day 04/12/23 Tenebrific
Tenebrific (adjective)
tenebrific [ ten-uh-brif-ik ]
adjective
1. producing darkness.
WORDS RELATED TO TENEBRIFIC
black, bleak, blue, blue funk, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, downcast, downhearted
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ORIGIN: 1640-50; < Latin tenebr(ae) darkness + -i- + -fic
HOW TO USE TENEBRIFIC IN A SENTENCE
The swallow has the same mythical meaning as the cuckoo; it is the joyful herald of spring, emerging from the tenebrific winter.
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tenebrific [ ten-uh-brif-ik ]
adjective
1. producing darkness.
WORDS RELATED TO TENEBRIFIC
black, bleak, blue, blue funk, broody, chapfallen, cheerless, crabbed, crestfallen, dark, dejected, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, downcast, downhearted
See synonyms for tenebrific on Thesaurus.com
ORIGIN: 1640-50; < Latin tenebr(ae) darkness + -i- + -fic
HOW TO USE TENEBRIFIC IN A SENTENCE
The swallow has the same mythical meaning as the cuckoo; it is the joyful herald of spring, emerging from the tenebrific winter.
ZOOLOGICAL MYTHOLOGY (VOLUME II)|ANGELO DE GUBERNATIS
Now YOU come up with a sentence (or fic? or graphic?) that best illustrates the word.