Meaning & use
Cimmerian
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Extremely dark or gloomy, evoking impenetrable blackness.
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The cave descended into a Cimmerian darkness that swallowed the light of their torches.
A Cimmerian mood settled over the city as the storm clouds blotted out the sun.
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Named after the Cimmerians, a people described by Homer in the Odyssey as living in a land of perpetual mist and darkness beyond the edge of the known world.
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