'Cimmerian' definitions:
Definition of 'Cimmerian'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness; "the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas
Definition of 'Cimmerian'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Without any light; intensely dark. [1913 Webster]
- In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. --Milton. [1913 Webster]