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Tenebrous vs Foggy - What's the difference?

tenebrous | foggy |

As adjectives the difference between tenebrous and foggy

is that tenebrous is dark and gloomy while foggy is obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy.

tenebrous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Dark and gloomy.
  • * 1847 , , "Evangeline"
  • Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress
    Met in a dusky arch,
  • * 1992 , Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, "Troia Vittrice'': Reviving Troy in the Woods of Jerusalem", ''Translations of Power: Narcissism and the Unconscious in Epic History , page 174
  • and it is inevitable that her murdered spirit become a denizen of Jerusalem's tenebrous woods.
  • * 1993 , , Natalie Zemon Davis, Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes'', page 62, 1991, ''Storia delle donne in Occidente , Volume III: Dal Rinascimento all'etá moderna,
  • White was more delicate, more feminine, more beautiful. Dark was more robust, more masculine, more tenebrous .
  • * 2008 , Edited by Brian W. Shaffer and Cynthia F. Wong, Conversations with Kazuo Ishiguro , University Press of Mississippi, page xi,
  • Although Ishiguro's novels are arguably more overtly concerned with emotional and psychological matters than with historical ones, it is certainly no accident that he sets all of his novels, as Margaret Atwood maintains, "against tenebrous historical backdrops."

    foggy

    English

    Adjective

    (fog) (er)
  • Obscured by mist or fog; unclear; hazy
  • (figuratively) Confused, befuddled, etc.
  • * He was still foggy with sleep.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1960 , author= , title=(Jeeves in the Offing) , section=chapter VI , passage=If she knew [a psychiatrist was] observing her son with a view to finding out if he was foggy between the ears, there would be umbrage on her part, or even dudgeon.}}

    Derived terms

    * fogginess