cimmerian Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite intensely dark and gloomy as with perpetual darkness
    • the Cimmerian gloom...a darkness that could be felt"-Norman Douglas

WordNet

Cim*me"ri*an adjective
Etymology
L. Cimmerius.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913