stygian[adjective]Synonyms: infernal, avernal, cimmerian, hellish, pandemoniac, plutonian, plutonic
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
Sty‧gi‧an /ˈstɪdʒiən/
adjective [usually before noun] literary[
Date: 1500-1600;
Language: Latin;
Origin: stygius, from Greek, from Styx river in ancient Greek stories which people cross over when they die]
unpleasantly dark, and making you feel nervous or afraid:
the Stygian gloom [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲