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Definition of Stygian adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Stygian

adjective
 
/ˈstɪdʒiən/
 
/ˈstɪdʒiən/
[usually before noun] (literary)
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  1. very dark, and therefore frightening
    • Stygian gloom
    Word OriginFrom the Styx, the river in the underworld which the souls of the dead had to cross in Greek myth.
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