Meaning & use
Stygian
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Extremely dark, gloomy, or hellish, resembling the underworld.
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The cave descended into a stygian darkness that swallowed the beam of every flashlight.
A stygian mood settled over the survivors after the news broke.
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The word alludes to the River Styx of Greek mythology, which the dead were ferried across into the underworld.
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