Cimmerian
- adjective
- /sɪˈmɪr.i.ən/
- Archaic
:
cimmerio
- As the sun set, the garden was enveloped in a Cimmerian gloom, shrouding the flowers in shadows.
Examples
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The storm clouds filled the sky with a Cimmerian darkness that made it feel like night.
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- Cimmerian women dress as warriors.
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But to be a Cimmerian Warrior, You must have both cunning and balance; as well as speed and strength.
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Wailing drifted over the long grass from the Cimmerian camp.
Fiction book (1996) -
The cave was deep and Cimmerian, making it impossible to see anything inside.
Synonyms
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1.0
Feeling gloomy and sad
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2.3
Dark and not well lit so a place feels sad
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9.9
So dark and frightening that it feels like a deep underground place
Dark and gloomy in a way that makes a place feel scary
Very dark, almost black, in color or very sad and gloomy
A place that is dark and misty and feels gloomy
A very empty and depressing place like a dark, lifeless land
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
Cimmerian = Cimmer (opaque) = Cimmer + ian
Although built from an ethnonym plus the adjective-forming suffix '-ian', the sense 'intensely dark' is a literary/figurative extension and not predictably inferable by typical learners.
Etymology
Cimmerian comes from the name of an ancient people, the Cimmerians, who old stories say lived in a land of fog and almost no light or 'darkness'. So calling a place or mood Cimmerian means it is deeply 'dark' or gloomy.