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adj
Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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adj
Infernal or hellish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, literary
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Synonyms: helly, subtartarean, Acherontic, infernal, Hadean, hellish, Plutonic, Plutonian, stygian, Tartarean
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adj
Dark and gloomy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, literary
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Synonyms: cimmerian, dusky, tenebrous, blear, caliginous, crepuscular, dark, darksome, darkling, dim, dimpsy, dingy, dull, fuliginous, gloomy, infernal, leaden, lightless, mirksome, murky, murksome, obscure, shady, somber, sombrous, stygian, sunless, swarthy, tenebrose, twilightish, umbrageous, unilluminated
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adj
Having a luminosity below 0%.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: color theory
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adj
Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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adj
Of, by or relating to the Plutonian moon named after Styx.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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adj
Alternative form of stygian: dark and gloomy, or infernal and hellish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, figuratively
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noun
An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: literature, media, publishing, science-fiction
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adjective satellite
dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades-Wordsworth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: Acheronian, Acherontic
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adjective satellite
hellish- Milton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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History
From Latin stygius + -ian, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).
See stygian.
Across languages
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