stygian
/ˈstɪdʒiən/
adjective
- Extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding.
- The cave was stygian, with no light reaching its deepest chambers.
- The old mansion had a stygian atmosphere that frightened the children.
- A stygian fog settled over the city, making the streets feel haunted.
- Relating to the River Styx in Greek mythology, or to the underworld.
- In ancient myths, the stygian waters of the River Styx separated the living from the dead.
- She described the dream as a stygian landscape of shadows and silence.
- The hero made a stygian journey to the underworld to rescue his friend.