{ "Cimmerian":{ "antonyms":[ "bright", "cheerful", "cheering", "cheery", "comforting", "cordial", "festive", "friendly", "gay", "heartwarming", "sunshiny" ], "definitions":{ ": any of a mythical people described by Homer as dwelling in a remote realm of mist and gloom":[], ": very dark or gloomy":[ "under ebon shades \u2026 in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell", "\u2014 John Milton" ] }, "examples":[ "Adjective", "a wealthy recluse who lived in Cimmerian isolation in a decaying Victorian mansion" ], "first_known_use":{ "1580, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective", "1584, in the meaning defined above":"Noun" }, "history_and_etymology":{ "Latin Cimmerii , a mythical people, from Greek Kimmerioi":"Noun" }, "pronounciation":[ "s\u0259-\u02c8mir-\u0113-\u0259n" ], "synonym_discussion":"", "synonyms":[ "black", "bleak", "cheerless", "chill", "cloudy", "cold", "comfortless", "dark", "darkening", "depressing", "depressive", "desolate", "dire", "disconsolate", "dismal", "drear", "dreary", "dreich", "elegiac", "elegiacal", "forlorn", "funereal", "gloomy", "glum", "godforsaken", "gray", "grey", "lonely", "lonesome", "lugubrious", "miserable", "morbid", "morose", "murky", "plutonian", "saturnine", "sepulchral", "solemn", "somber", "sombre", "sullen", "sunless", "tenebrific", "tenebrous", "wretched" ], "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-174353", "type":[ "adjective", "noun" ] } }