MEANING
1. Very dark or gloomy, especially in a literary description of bleakness, isolation, or shadow.
2. A member of a mythical people whom Homer describes as dwelling in a remote realm of mist and gloom.
Use it for
Extremely dark or gloomy; also the name of a mythical people in Homer.Use the adjective for oppressive darkness or bleak isolation; distinguish the rare mythological noun sense.
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The manor stood in Cimmerian isolation, its windows blind beneath the storm.
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