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Dusky vs Cimmerian - What's the difference?

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Dusky is a related term of cimmerian.


As adjectives the difference between dusky and cimmerian

is that dusky is dimly lit, as at dusk (evening) while cimmerian is pertaining to the ancient cimmerians.

As nouns the difference between dusky and cimmerian

is that dusky is a dusky shark while cimmerian is (greek mythology) 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.

dusky

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
    • I like it when it is dusky , just before the street lights come on.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=1 citation , passage=A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.}}
  • A shade of color that is rather dark.
    • The dusky rose was of a muted color, not clashing with any of the other colors.
  • (dated) dark-skinned
    • '>citation
  • :* In the raw attempt to apply the perfected institutions of Anglo-Saxon civilization to the descendants of the dusky races which inhabited Mexico before the discovery of America by Columbus, the Mexican statesmen of 1824 put the principles of democratic government to a terrible ordeal.
  • ashen, greyish skin coloration
    • This man in shock has a silver colored dusky skin tone.

    Noun

    (duskies)
  • A dusky shark.
  • A dusky dolphin.

    • cimmerian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • perpetually dark or gloomy
  • * 1631 : , L'Allegro
    • There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
  • * 1740 :
    • As ragged as thy locks,
    In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
  • * 1820 :
    • ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
  • (figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
  • * 1770 :
    • The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.

    Derived terms

    * cimmerianism * cimmerianize