stygian
See also: Stygian
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).
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editAdjective
editstygian (comparative more stygian, superlative most stygian)
- Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”)
- (literary) Dark and gloomy.
- 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 184:
- The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye […]
- (literary) Infernal or hellish.
- (vision, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.
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editdark and gloomy
infernal or hellish