Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Stygian"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Stygian \Styg"i*an\, a. [L. Stygius, fr. Styx, Stygis, Gr. ?, ?,
the Styx.]
Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal.
See {Styx}.
At that so sudden blaze, the Stygian throng Bent their
aspect. --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Stygian
adj 1: hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave
forlorn"- Milton [syn: {Stygian}]
2: 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 [syn: {Acheronian},
{Acherontic}, {Stygian}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.