different between inky vs cimmerian
inky
English
Etymology
ink +? -y
Adjective
inky (comparative inkier, superlative inkiest)
- Of the colour of ink, especially black ink; dark.
- 1870, The Shamrock (volume 8, page 18)
- One black and gusty night, when the moon was down and the inky clouds swept fiercely overhead through the starless void; when the cruel wind raged and tore, and the sleety rain came swirlingly, drivingly down […]
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6
- Tenderly she bore him back through the inky jungle to where the tribe lay, and for many days and nights she sat guard beside him, bringing him food and water, and brushing the flies and other insects from his cruel wounds.
- 1870, The Shamrock (volume 8, page 18)
- Spattered or stained with ink.
- (obsolete, literary) Dark-skinned; black.
Synonyms
- (dark coloured): black, dark, murky
- (dark-skinned): black, dusky, sable, sooty, swarthy
Antonyms
- bright
- clear
- whitened
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cimmerian
English
Etymology
From Cimmerian.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??m?????n/
Adjective
cimmerian (comparative more cimmerian, superlative most cimmerian)
- (poetic) perpetually dark or gloomy
- 1631: Milton, L'Allegro
- There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- 1740: George Frideric Handel and Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
- As ragged as thy locks,
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- As ragged as thy locks,
- 1820: Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry
- ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
- 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, [1]
- 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.
- 1631: Milton, L'Allegro
- (figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
- 1770: Baron D'Holbach, The System of Nature
- 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
Derived terms
- cimmerianism
- cimmerianize
Translations
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