Associations to the word «Stygian»

Wiktionary

STYGIAN, adjective. Dark and gloomy.
STYGIAN, adjective. Infernal or hellish.
STYGIAN, adjective. Of, by or relating to the river Styx.
STYGIAN, adjective. Alternative form of stygian: dark and gloomy, or infernal and hellish.

Dictionary definition

STYGIAN, adjective. Hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton.
STYGIAN, adjective. 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.

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