what does Stygian mean?
STYGIAN as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
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- in the depths of an Acheronian forest
- upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue-Wordsworth
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- Meaning
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- Hence loathed Melancholy…/In Stygian cave forlorn- Milton
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