Cimmerian landscape
- noun
- Archaic
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paisaje cimmerio
- Fog drifted over the Cimmerian landscape, hiding the crumbling ruins from view.
Examples
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As the sun set, the valley transformed into a Cimmerian landscape of endless shadows.
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The novel's setting is a Cimmerian landscape that perfectly captures the protagonist's despair.
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The Cimmerian landscape was haunting.
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Look at that Cimmerian landscape!
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As the sun set, the valley transformed into a Cimmerian landscape of endless shadows.
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Fog drifted over the Cimmerian landscape, hiding the crumbling ruins from view.
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The novel's setting is a Cimmerian landscape that perfectly captures the protagonist's despair.
Synonyms
Very dark and gloomy with no light
A dark, gloomy scene that looks like hell
Antonyms
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'Cimmerian' (characterized by overwhelming darkness) combined with the noun 'landscape' yields a directly compositional meaning: a very dark or gloomy landscape. This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cimmerian landscape may come from old stories about the people called the Cimmerians, who were said to live in thick mist and almost no light. So Cimmerian came to mean 'very dark' and landscape means the view, and the whole phrase describes a very dark, gloomy place.