Stygian
adjective /ˈstɪdʒiən/
/ˈstɪdʒiən/
[usually before noun] (literary)- very dark, and therefore frightening
- Stygian gloom
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Word OriginFrom the Styx, the river in the underworld which the souls of the dead had to cross in Greek myth.