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stygian

/stij-ee-uhn/US // ˈstɪdʒ i ən //UK // (ˈstɪdʒɪən) //

风格化的,风格化,风格迥异,风格化的人

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the river Styx or to Hades.
    • : dark or gloomy.
    • : infernal; hellish.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inblack

Examples

  • A narrow loophole barely filtered through a pale ray of light into that semi-Stygian darkness.

  • It was not the sort of night we know on earth, but a Stygian blackness.

  • The night had become inky-black; the town was in a valley and the shadow of trees and houses made the darkness even more Stygian.

  • One of the Stygian vessels, the Despair, was sunk by the Hope.

  • Then the Stygian darkness of the great pines grew; and the silence of wonder fell on the two quarrellers.