tenebrific Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite dark and gloomy
    tenebrious; tenebrous.
    • a tenebrous cave

WordNet

Ten`e*brif"ic adjective
Etymology
L. tenebrae darkness + facere to make.
Definitions
  1. Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy.
    It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns.
    Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

Webster 1913