Stygian

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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