What's the difference between acheronian and stygian?
Acheronian
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Stygian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
Example Sentences:
(1) He talks about shooting in "the disused tube platforms under Charing Cross in stygian darkness".
(2) How odd that we see those bizarre creatures of the Stygian depths, with their eerie antennae and sightless eyes, and regard them as alien, when they are, after all, our distant ancestors.
(3) 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.