Cimmerian vs Atrocious - What's the difference?
cimmerian | atrocious | Related terms |
perpetually dark or gloomy
* 1631 : , L'Allegro
* 1740 :
* 1820 :
(figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
* 1770 :
Frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.
Offensive or heinous. (rfex)
Very bad; abominable or disgusting.
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, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
As adjectives the difference between cimmerian and atrocious
is that cimmerian is perpetually dark or gloomy while atrocious is frightful, evil, cruel or monstrous.As a noun Cimmerian
is any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness.As a proper noun Cimmerian
is the language of the Cimmerians, possibly belonging to the Iranian branch.cimmerian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- As ragged as thy locks,
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
- The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.