Pitchy vs Cimmerian - What's the difference?
pitchy | cimmerian | Related terms |
Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
Very dark black; pitch-black.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
(music) Off pitch; out of tune.
perpetually dark or gloomy
* 1631 : , L'Allegro
* 1740 :
* 1820 :
(figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
* 1770 :
Pitchy is a related term of cimmerian.
As adjectives the difference between pitchy and cimmerian
is that pitchy is of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch while cimmerian is pertaining to the ancient cimmerians.As a noun 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.pitchy
English
Adjective
(er)- gurgles, twice in the four-and-twenty hours, with eddying brine, clangorous with sea-fowl; and is a ''Lither''-Pool, a ''lazy or sullen Pool, no monstrous pitchy City, and Seahaven of the world!
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.