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Pitchy vs Cimmerian - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch.
  • Very dark black; pitch-black.
  • *1843 , '', book 2, ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
  • 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!
  • (music) Off pitch; out of tune.
  • 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