EnglishLearner.com
  • Dictionary
  • List of exercises
  • Exercises by level
    • Beginner exercises
    • Intermediate exercises
    • Advanced exercises
  • Dictionary
  • List of exercises
  • Exercises by level+
    • Beginner exercises
    • Intermediate exercises
    • Advanced exercises

Meaning of Stygian in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Classifying Adjective
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

    US accent

    How to pronounce stygian in American English, in context ▾
    Use the controls below Controls button to browse different examples of pronunciation.

    UK accent

    How to pronounce stygian in British English, in context ▾
    Use the controls below Controls button to browse different examples of pronunciation.
  1. Classifying Adjective

    Stygian

    Definitions

    1. hellish

    Examples

    • « Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn- Milton »

    Synonyms

    • infernal
  2. 2. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades

    Examples

    • « in the depths of an Acheronian forest »
    • « upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue-Wordsworth »

    Synonyms

    • dark

Browse dictionary

  • stye
  • sty
  • Stuyvesant
  • Stuttgart
  • Stygian
  • style
  • styled
  • styleless
  • stylemark
Copyright © EnglishLearner.com 1998-2021