Stygian Definition & Meaning

stygian
adjective
  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

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