Stygian Definition & Meaning
stygian
- adjective
- hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton
- 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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