stygian
pronunciation
How to pronounce stygian in British English:
UK ['stɪdʒɪən]
How to pronounce stygian in American English:
US [ˈstɪdʒiən]
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- Adjective:
- hellish
- dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
Word Origin
- Stygian (adj.)
- "pertaining to Styx or the nether world," 1560s, from Latin Stygius, from Greek Stygios, from Styx (genitive Stygos); see Styx.
Example
- 1. And save us from the stygian flood .
- 2. How long do I have to stay in this stygian limbo ?
- 3. The grand prize is a special housing plot in the mysterious stygian abyss !
- 4. Yet even this represented an improvement on the stygian depths of minus 39 last july , an all-time low since the index started in 1974 , or the minus 37 recorded in january 2009 .
- 5. Newton was a serious alchemist , who spent night upon dawn for three decades of his life slaving over a stygian furnace in search of the power to transmute one chemical element into another .