Synonyms of stygian

stygian

adjective

ˈsti-j(ē-)ən 

as in darkened

being without light or without much light

lost in the stygian reaches of the deep forest

Synonyms & Similar Words

• darkened
• dark
• murky
• black
• dusky
• lightless
• darkling
• dusk
• darksome
• dim
• pitch-black
• unlit
• darkish
• gloomy
• pitch-dark
• tenebrous
• somber
• obscure
• obscured
• caliginous
• dimmed
• rayless
• pitchy
• twilit
• crepuscular
• starless
• moonless
• tenebrific
• gray
• misty
• shadowy
• shady
• lackluster
• pale
• sunless
• dulled
• leaden
• clouded
• cloudy
• fuliginous
• foggy
• dull
• smoggy
• shadowlike
• soupy
• befogged
• beclouded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• light
• luminous
• lucent
• brilliant
• bright
• illuminated
• lit
• shining
• incandescent
• lucid
• radiant
• lambent
• effulgent
• illumined
• lightsome
• sparkling
• resplendent
• glowing
• glaring
• beamy
• alight
• brightened
• beaming
• shiny
• lustrous
• glossy
• aglitter
• moonlit
• agleam
• sunlit
• relucent
• ultrabright
• moony
• starlit
• ablaze
• highlighted
• spotlighted
• floodlit

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stygian

But the film that follows — luminously ashen where too many recent movies and TV shows have just been irritatingly dim — is flooded with a moonlight so lucid and alive that even the story’s most stygian moments might as well have been set at high noon. — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024

On the credit side of the ledger, the stygian interior decor is brightened at night by the neonesque instrument and secondary-control lighting—blue and red—and the cabin is commendably quiet at most operating speeds. — Tony Swan, Car and Driver, 3 June 2023

In the last half of 1934, glimmers of daylight peaked through the stygian blackness and, and 1935, the downward trajectory began to reverse itself and tick upward. — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023

Predators that eat the banana-sized birds include peregrine falcons, stygian owls and arboreal snakes. — Jill Langlois, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023

Did this rodent revenant cross a stygian void to haunt us yet again? — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2022

Streaks should start cutting through the stygian sky starting at midnight. — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2021

When his tiny friend Trinket devises a scheme for their escape from the orphanage, Arthur embarks on a quest through a wild wood and into the stygian corridors of a subterranean city to solve the mystery of his origins. — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017

After a five-minute ride through the stygian darkness, the barge eases up to a low dock. — Wayne Curtis, WIRED, 30 May 2017

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