Stygian

Definition: Stygian

Stygian

Adjective

1. Hellish; "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton.

2. Dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades; "in the depths of an Acheronian forest"; "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth.

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Date "Stygian" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Stygian \Styg"i*an\, adjective. [Latin expression Stygius, from Styx, Stygis, Greek expression the Styx.]. (Websters 1913)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stygian

Death

Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).

Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.

Hell

Adjective: hellish, infernal, stygian.

Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.

Vice

Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.

Crosswords: Stygian

Books

• Stygian Knight (Msl4, Marvel Universe Module) (reference)

• Stygian Relics of the Lachrymose (reference)

• The Stygian Cross (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Stygian Vistas (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "Stygian": stygian shore. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏جهنمي (hellish, infernal). (various references)

Dutch

Stygisch. (various references)

French

sombre (stern), ténébreux, noir comme le styx. (various references)

German

stygisch. (various references)

Greek 

καταχθόνιοσ (hellish, infernal), στύγιοσ. (various references)

Hungarian

styxi, sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, grim, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), pokoli (deuced, fiendish, hellish, helluva, infernal), homályos (abstruse, apocalyptic, bleary, blurred, cloudy, darksome, dim, dusk, dusky, equivocal, foggy, frosted, fuzzy, gloomy, hazy, indistinct, indistinctive, lustreless, misty, murky, nebulous, oblique, obscure, recondite, shadowy, shady, shape, transcendental, twilit, unclear, vague), alvilági (tartarean). (various references)

Pig Latin

ygianstay

Portuguese

sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, morose, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, umbrageous), tenebroso (dark, gloomy, sable, tenebrous), infernal (diabolic, diabolical, hellish, infernal, satanic, terrible). (various references)

Russian 

стигийский. (various references)

Spanish

estigio (Styx). (various references)

Ukrainian

непорушний (eternal, firm, hard and fast, immobile, immutable, indefeasible, sacred, standing, static), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thê lương (drear, dreary, gaunt, mournful), ảm đạm (black, drear, dreary, dull, howling, mournful). (various references)

Misspellings

"Stygian" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Stigand, stygain, stygean, stygiant, Stylianou, Stylina, styngian. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: staying.

-1 letter: gainst, giants, sanity, sating, satiny, saying, stingy, stying.

-2 letters: agist, angst, antis, antsy, ayins, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, nasty, saint, satin, stagy, staig, stain, stang, sting, tains, tangs, tangy, tansy, tings, tying, yagis, yangs.

-3 letters: agin, ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, ayin, gain, gait, gast, gats, gays, gins, gist, gits, gnat, nags, nays.

+1 letter: stingray, straying, yeasting.

+2 letters: anythings, astonying, egyptians, estraying, gymnastic, gyrations, lastingly, nystagmic, safetying, signatory, steadying, stingrays, teasingly, yachtings.

+3 letters: amnestying, autolysing, autopsying, fantasying, gymnastics, gyniatries, laryngitis, outstaying, panegyrist, playthings, sanguinity, satisfying, scathingly, slantingly.

+4 letters: angioplasty, arrestingly, astringency, babysitting, cosignatory, designatory, grandiosity, hairstyling, mythmakings, overstaying, panegyrists, phantasying, pharyngitis, playactings, sanctifying, singularity, soothsaying, startlingly, stratifying, stringybark, syncopating, syndicating, syntagmatic, tapestrying, travestying, typecasting, tyrannising, unsteadying.