Adjective: cimmerian
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more cimmerian |
| Superlative | most cimmerian |
Sample Sentences
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There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. [1631, Milton, L'Allegro:]
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As ragged as thy locks,
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In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. [1740, George Frideric Handel, Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato:]
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...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours. [1820, Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry:]
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1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
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The glimpse of blue vault far above only heightened the cimmerian gloom of the canyon, and the frowning rocks, which rose abruptly gave one the impression that they were on the point of crashing into the ravine.
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The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne. [1770, Baron D'Holbach, The System of Nature:]
Adjectives inflected like cimmerian
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Cimmerian.