Meaning of Stygian in English
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Classifying Adjective
StygianDefinitions
1. hellishExamples
- « Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn- Milton »
Synonyms
- 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 »
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