stygian

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Stygian
    adj 1: hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave
           forlorn"- Milton
    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}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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}.
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         At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng
         Bent their aspect.                       --Milton.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "Stygian":
      Acheronian, Acherontic, Cimmerian, Lethean, Plutonian, Plutonic,
      Tartarean, chthonian, chthonic, clouded, cloudy, dark and gloomy,
      devilish, funereal, gloomful, glooming, gloomy, hellborn, hellish,
      ill-lighted, ill-lit, infernal, lowering, overcast, pandemoniac,
      pandemonic, purgatorial, somber, sombrous, stormy, sulfurous
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