stygian

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  1. adjective Gloomy and dark.
  2. adjective Infernal; hellish.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the river Styx.

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  • And then there are stories that we whisper into a stygian darkness. —  Carmen Agra Deedy spins stories
  • The clouds moved across the moon and reshaped the shadows on the wall and Helen was not hanging there with her black black eyes, her covetous mouth, or the stygian worm that fed on her face. —  FSF,June2006
  • This may not seem like much, but the finds shimmer like gold in the stygian atmosphere. —  California Literary Review
  • He catches with admirable linguistic agility the shifts of tone and the unexpected shafts of humor amid the stygian gloom that constantly challenges Dürrenmatt's readers. —  The Chicago Blog
  • Who had an elite force of stormtroopers under his command whose black armor had been modified with stygian-triprismatic polymer? —  TheForce.Net
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  1. From Latin Stygius, from Greek Stugios, from Stux, Stug-, Styx.
 

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