Cimmerian
[si'miәriәn]
Definition
(adj.) intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; 'the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt'-Norman Douglas .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and perpetual darkness.
(a.) Without any light; intensely dark.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Black, very dark, intensely dark.
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Definition
adj. relating to the Cimmerii a tribe fabled to have lived in perpetual darkness: extremely dark.
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Examples
- Double sorrow--sadness, bred in Cimmerian caves, robed my soul in a mourning garb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- In another instant she was gone, and the dim light which had filled the cell faded into Cimmerian blackness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Then she extinguished the lamp and all within the cabin was wrapped in Cimmerian darkness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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