stygian

sty·gian

adjective, often capitalized \ˈsti-j(ē-)ən\

Definition of STYGIAN

1

: of or relating to the river Styx

2

: extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding <the stygian blackness of the cave>

Examples of STYGIAN

1. <lost in the stygian reaches of the deep forest>

Origin of STYGIAN

Latin stygius, from Greek stygios, from Styg-, Styx Styx

First Known Use: 1513

Related to STYGIAN

Synonyms

black, caliginous, darkened, darkish, darkling, darksome, dim, dimmed, dusk, dusky, gloomy, lightless, murky, obscure, obscured, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, rayless, somber (or sombre), dark, tenebrific, tenebrous, unlit

Antonyms

bright, brightened, brilliant, illuminated, illumined, light, lit (or lighted), lightsome, lucent, lucid, luminous

Related Words

crepuscular, twilit; moonless, starless, sunless; cloudy, dull, dulled, lackluster; shadowlike, shadowy, shady; gray (also grey), leaden, pale; beclouded, befogged, clouded, foggy, fuliginous, misty, smoggy, soupy

Near Antonyms

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling; ultrabright; glossy, lustrous, shiny; floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit); moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Other Mythology and Folklore Terms

elysian, fay, muse, nimbus, phoenix

Rhymes with STYGIAN

Phrygian, pidgin, pigeon, smidgen, wigeon