Usually means: Dark and gloomy; infernally black.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Stygian:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. stygian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stygian: Merriam-Webster
  3. Stygian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stygian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Stygian: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Stygian: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stygian, stygian: Wordnik
  8. Stygian, stygian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stygian, stygian: Wiktionary
  10. Stygian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Stygian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Stygian: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stygian: Dictionary.com
  14. Stygian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Stygian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stygian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stygian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Stygian: Rhymezone
  19. Stygian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stygian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stygian: FreeDictionary.org
  22. stygian: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. stygian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stygian: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Stygian: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stygian: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stygian: A Word A Day
  2. stygian: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stygian: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See stygians as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (literary) Dark and gloomy.
adjective:  (literary) Infernal or hellish.
adjective:  (vision, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.
adjective:  (Greek mythology) Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.
adjective:  (astronomy) Of, by or relating to the Plutonian moon named after Styx.
noun:  (science fiction) An inhabitant of Styx (a moon of Pluto).
adjective:  Alternative form of Stygian (“of or relating to the river Styx”) [(Greek mythology) Of, by or relating to the river Styx in Greek mythology.]
adjective:  Alternative form of stygian: dark and gloomy, or infernal and hellish. [(literary) Dark and gloomy.]

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