Stygian
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- adjective
- /ˈstɪdʒiən/
- Literature
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- A quick envelopment within that mammoth beak... ...a painful voyaging down the monstrous gullet... ...oblivion within the cavern of that stygian craw.
- stygian darkness
- stygian blackness
Examples
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Her love of bats might have overcome her fear of enclosed spaces, but if one waited, the splendid little creatures were good enough to come out and be enjoyed in less stygian realms.
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Or perhaps some stealthy monster waited just ahead, plucking each group silently and swiftly from their stygian barges.
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"She did so, and for a moment they were plunged into what seemed to be absolute, stygian darkness.
Fiction book (1999) -
Nasty little bastards called the Stygian Triplets.
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But it casts a light into a dark, stygian corner of our decaying republic that some are under the illusion is a democracy.
Blog text (28) -
For these crimes, you have been sentenced to life... ...without the possibility of return... ...on the Stygian Penal Colony, in the Hades Universe.
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And I have nowhere near plumbed the stygian depths of the NMEA standard's top two layers of suck.
Blog text (1) -
He is going to insist upon, and win because of the mandate he feels he has received from ignorant voters, sizeable tax increases for eighty percent of the population; this alone is going to plunge the economy to stygian depths.
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If a society or any collection of people can decide among themselves who is to live and who is to die for the well-being of the body politic, then what starts off as an appeal through reason to save the many at the sacrifice of the few is the slippery slope that can and too often does ultimately lead to the stygian depths that Adolf proudly pronounced to be the Third Reich.
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The cave was filled with stygian darkness, making it impossible to see anything inside.
Synonyms
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Dark and not well lit so a place feels sad
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Dark and gloomy in a way that makes you feel uncertain or afraid
Very dark and gloomy like a place of the dead
Dark and gloomy like a place where dead people live
Relating to the world of the dead in Greek myth
Relating to the underworld or things under the earth
Very dark and gloomy with no light
Dark and gloomy in a way that makes a place feel scary
Very dark, almost black, in color or very sad and gloomy
Antonyms
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Stygian comes from Styx, the river in Greek myth that marked the land of the dead and was called the 'river of the dead'. So to call a place Stygian is to say it feels as dark, gloomy, and scary as that underworld.