What is the meaning of stygian?

adjective

  • 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
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