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stygian


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stygian  \Styg"i*an\,  a.  [L.  Stygius  fr  Styx,  Stygis  Gr  ?,  ?, 
  the  Styx.] 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  the  river  Styx;  hence  hellish;  infernal. 
  See  {Styx}. 
 
  At  that  so  sudden  blaze,  the  Stygian  throng  Bent  their 
  aspect.  --Milton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Stygian 
  adj  1:  hellish;  "Hence  loathed  Melancholy.../In  Stygian  cave 
  forlorn"-  Milton  [syn:  {Stygian}] 
  2:  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}] 




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