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stygian

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of stygian

being without light or without much light

lost in the stygian reaches of the deep forest

Synonyms of stygian

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

Words Related to stygian

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 of stygian

ablaze, agleam, aglitter, alight, beaming, beamy, effulgent, glaring, glowing, incandescent, lambent, radiant, relucent, resplendent, shining, sparkling

glossy, lustrous, shiny

floodlit (also floodlighted), highlighted, spotlighted (or spotlit)

moonlit, moony, starlit, sunlit

Antonyms of stygian

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

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