Stygian \Styg"i*an\ (st[i^]j"[i^]*an), a. [L. Stygius, fr. Styx,
Stygis, Gr. Sty`x, Stygo`s, the Styx.]
Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal.
See Styx.
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At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng
Bent their aspect. --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stygian
adj 1: hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave
forlorn"- Milton
2: dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades;
"in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those
roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth [syn: Acheronian,
Acherontic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "Stygian":
Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Lethean, Plutonian, Plutonic,
Tartarean, chthonian, chthonic, clouded, cloudy, dark and gloomy,
devilish, funereal, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, hellborn, hellish,
ill-lighted, ill-lit, infernal, lowering, overcast, pandemoniac,
pandemonic, purgatorial, somber, sombrous, stormy, sulfurous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Acheronian, Acherontic
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