'Stygian' definitions:
Definition of 'Stygian'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton
adjective
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 [syn: Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian]
Definition of 'Stygian'
From: GCIDE
- Stygian \Styg"i*an\ (st[i^]j"[i^]*an), a. [L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr. Sty`x, Stygo`s, the Styx.] Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx. [1913 Webster]
- At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their aspect. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Stygian'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Acheronian,
- Acherontic,
- chthonian,
- chthonic,
- Cimmerian,
- clouded,
- cloudy,
- dark and gloomy,
- devilish,
- funereal,
- gloomful,
- glooming,
- gloomy,
- hellborn,
- hellish,
- ill-lighted,
- ill-lit,
- infernal,
- Lethean,
- lowering,
- overcast,
- pandemoniac,
- pandemonic,
- Plutonian,
- Plutonic,
- purgatorial,
- somber,
- sombrous,
- stormy,
- sulfurous,
- Tartarean