stygian : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: stygian	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Stygian adj hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton 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 Synonym(s): Acheronian, Acherontic, Stygian
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stygian \Styg"ian\, 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.