| 单词 | Stygian |
| 释义 | Stygian (once / 10894 pages) adj Something that's Stygian is dark, murky, and probably a little melancholy. Your walk home from the bus stop might feel Stygian on a foggy, moonless night. When you describe something as Stygian, you're comparing it to the murky and terrible river Styx, which flows through the underworld in ancient Greek mythology. The word itself comes from the Greek word Stygios, from Styx, which literally means "the hateful." Some related words in Greek are stygos, "hatred," and stygnos, "gloomy." That should give you a good idea of the way a Stygian library, alley, or cave looks and feels — dismal and dark. WORD FAMILYStyx: Stygian, Styxes USAGE EXAMPLESIs the name a nod to the local passion for the Stygian side of the beer world? Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) Far from being cruel and Stygian, the bog had a textural beauty, its atmosphere, like its fickle microclimate, changing with the wind. New York Times(Nov 16, 2016) The pictures – dramatic, intense, Stygian and insistently putting the Bible into the here and now – were like nothing seen before and their effect was instantaneous. The Guardian(Oct 07, 2016) 1adj dark and dismal as of the river Styx in Hades "upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue"-Wordsworth Syn Acheronian, Acherontic dark devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black 2adj dark and gloomy Syn tenebrific, tenebrious, tenebrous dark devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black 3adj hellish "Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn"- Milton Syn infernal being of the underworld |
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