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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. hellish;
- Example: "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton

2. dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades;
- Example: "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"
- Example: "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth
[syn: Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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, Stygian]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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