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View usage for: Stygian in British English (ˈstɪdʒɪən) adjective1. of or relating to the river Styx 2. mainly literarya. dark, gloomy, or hellish b. completely inviolable, as a vow sworn by the river Styx Word origin C16: from Latin Stygius, from Greek Stugios, from Stux Styx; related to stugein to hate Stygian in American English (ˈstɪdʒiən; ˈstɪdʒən) adjective1. of or characteristic of the river Styx and the infernal regions 2. [also s-]c. inviolable; completely binding, as an oath sworn by the river Styx Word origin < L Stygius (< Gr Stygios < Styx: see Styx) + -an Examples of 'Stygian' in a sentenceStygian Each detonation illuminated the short terrace for an instant then the houses were plunged into a Stygian dark.He estimated that only twenty minutes of light remained in his last lamp before the Stygian gloom returned for good. Synonyms of 'Stygian'dark, black, gloomy, dreary More Synonyms of Stygian Definition dark or gloomy literary) Synonyms hellish tenebrous Hadean caliginous (archaic) Tartarean Additional synonymsDefinition without hope After the demise of her business, she fell into a black depression. Synonyms gloomy, sad, depressing, distressing, horrible, grim, bleak, hopeless, dismal, ominous, sombre, morbid, mournful, morose, lugubrious, joyless, funereal, doleful, cheerlessDefinition dull or uninteresting a dreary little town in the Midwest Synonyms dismal, depressing, bleak, sad, lonely, gloomy, solitary, melancholy, sombre, forlorn, glum, mournful, lonesome (US, Canadian), downcast, sorrowful, wretched, joyless, funereal, doleful, cheerless, drear, comfortlessDefinition dark or dismal Inside it's gloomy after all that sunshine. Synonyms dark, dull, dim, dismal, black, grey, obscure, murky, dreary, sombre, shadowy, overcast, dusky, crepuscular, Stygian (literary), tenebrous- sturdy
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Additional synonymsDefinition of or relating to hell the goddess of the infernal regions Synonyms hellish, lower, underworld, nether, Stygian (literary), Hadean, Plutonian, chthonian, Tartarean (literary) Definition (of colour or clothes) dull or dark a worried official in sombre black Synonyms dark, dull, gloomy, sober, drabSynonyms shadowy, dark, obscure, dim, gloomy, murky, shady, sombre, dingy, dusky, unlit, sunless, Stygian (literary) |