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Definition of Stygian
1. Adjective. Hellish. "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"
2. Adjective. Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades. "Upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"
Definition of Stygian
1. a. Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
Definition of Stygian
1. Adjective. Dark and gloomy. ¹
2. Adjective. Infernal or hellish. ¹
3. Adjective. Of, or relating to the river Styx. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stygian
1. gloomy [adj] - See also: gloomy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stygian
Literary usage of Stygian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography: From the Earliest Times to 1900 by George Smith, Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1897)
"... denounces alcohol ' as a stygian poison,' and collects much historical and
medical information. All his books were published in London. ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"SONG OF THE stygian NAIADES. Proserpine may pull her flowers, Wet with dew or
wet with tears, Red with anger, pale with fears, Is it any fault of ours, ..."
3. The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1900)
"haps than by any other mythical figure.1 This is further carried out by the
mention of the stygian cave forlorn, of horrid shapes and unholy sights, ..."
4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"Or if some path there be, " If thy celestial mother guide thee here " (For not,
I ween, without the grace of gods " Wilt cross yon rivers vast, yon stygian ..."
5. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"a saintly soul floats on the stygian river; And, Guy De Veré, hast thou no tear ?
— weep now or never more ! See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy ..."
6. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"A constable. (3) ». То nod ; to beckon. 'black. • Tin« here I vow, By my beloved
brothers stygian slow, Бу nil those ..."
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