stygian

See also: Stygian

English

WOTD – 5 May 2009

From Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).

stygian (comparative more stygian, superlative most stygian)

Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”)
(literary) Dark and gloomy.
- 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918 September, →OCLC, page 184:
  The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye […]
(literary) Infernal or hellish.
(vision, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.

(color):

(color):

dark and gloomy

infernal or hellish