Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cimmerian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cimmerian \Cim*me"ri*an\, a. [L. Cimmerius.] [Written also
{Kimmerian}.]
1. Pertaining to the Cimmerii, a fabulous people, said to
have lived, in very ancient times, in profound and
perpetual darkness.
2. Without any light; intensely dark.
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Cimmerian
adj : intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the
Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman
Douglas [syn: {Cimmerian}]
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