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Stygian

[ stij-ee-uhn ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
  2. dark or gloomy.
  3. infernal; hellish.


Stygian

/ ˈɪɪə /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the river Styx
  2. literary.
    1. dark, gloomy, or hellish
    2. completely inviolable, as a vow sworn by the river Styx
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ٰԲ-ٲⲵi· adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Stygian1

1560–70; < Latin Stygi ( us ) < Greek ýDz ( Styg-, stem of ý Styx + -ios adj. suffix) + -an
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Stygian1

C16: from Latin Stygius, from Greek Stugios, from Stux Styx ; related to stugein to hate
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Sometimes we come to a fuller reckoning of ourselves through the most Stygian passageways.

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He parked next to a dimly lit footbridge, which wobbled with our passage above a Stygian chasm.

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Framed in Stygian iron, the magical portal was a set of elevator doors—two panels of silver and black etched with art deco designs.

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The actors are shot in separate gloomy interiors, and from stationary positions, so as to appear in Stygian Zoom-like frames as if at a virtual meeting of hobbits.

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The protagonist, Nephthys Kinwell, is, in one light, an alcoholic taxi driver, and, in another, a Stygian ferrywoman haunted by the violent death of her twin brother, Osiris.

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