Cimmerian

Cim·me·ri·an

C0356600 (sĭ-mîr′ē-ən)adj. Very dark or gloomy.n. Greek Mythology One of a mythical people described by Homer as inhabiting a land of perpetual darkness.

[From Latin Cimmeriī, the Cimmerians, from Greek Kimmerioi.]

Cimmerian

(sɪˈmɪərɪən) adj (sometimes not capital) very dark; gloomyn (Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth one of a people who lived in a land of darkness at the edge of the world

Cim•me•ri•an

(sɪˈmɪər i ən)

adj. very dark; gloomy. [1590–1600; < Latin Cimmeri(us) < Greek Kimmérioi a mythical people mentioned in the Odyssey who lived where the sun never shone]

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Cimmerian - intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglasdark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"

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adj intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness

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