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1Cimmerian
adjective Cim·me·ri·an \sə-ˈmir-ē-ən\
Definition of CIMMERIAN
: very dark or gloomy <under ebon shades … in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell — John Milton>
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First Known Use of CIMMERIAN
1580
Related to CIMMERIAN
- Synonyms
- black, bleak, cheerless, chill, gloomy, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
Rhymes with CIMMERIAN
Adlerian, Algerian, Assyrian, Chaucerian, Faulknerian, Forsterian, Hesperian, Hitlerian, Hutterian, Hyperion, Iberian, Illyrian, Keplerian, Liberian, Mahlerian, Mousterian, Nigerian, Pierian, Shakespearean, Siberian, Skinnerian, Spencerian, Spenserian, Spenglerian, Sumerian, valerian, Valerian, Wagnerian, Weberian, Whistlerian
2Cimmerian
noun
Definition of CIMMERIAN
: any of a mythical people described by Homer as dwelling in a remote realm of mist and gloom
Origin of CIMMERIAN
Latin Cimmerii, a mythical people, from Greek Kimmerioi
First Known Use: 1584
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