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stygian
/ˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ən/
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What does stygian mean?
adjective
- Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).
- (figuratively, literary) Infernal or hellish.
- (figuratively, literary) Dark and gloomy.
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adjective
- Having a luminosity below 0%.
- Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.
- Of, by or relating to the Plutonian moon named after Styx.
- (figuratively) Alternative form of stygian: dark and gloomy, or infernal and hellish.
noun
- An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).
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/ˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ən/
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By a gentle, tearless doom Speed this stranger to the gloom, Let him enter without pain The all-shrouding Stygian plain.
I stalk about her door Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks Staying for waftage.
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Here and there the brilliant rays penetrated to earth, but for the most part they only served to accentuate the Stygian blackness of the jungle’s depths.
We stumble and struggle through the Stygian gloom; the merciless blast--an incubus of vengeance--stabs, buffets and freezes; the stinging drift blinds and chokes.
My veins were filled with liquid fire, and but that stygian darkness was about me, I told myself that I must have seen the smoke arising from my burning body.