What's the difference between hellish and stygian?
Hellish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to hell; like hell; infernal; malignant; wicked; detestable; diabolical.
Example Sentences:
(1) - come up with something like this hellishly raw and poorly recorded album, but only if you were very, very lucky.
(2) For assassination attempts, oil spills, pirates and a hellish inferno outside Waco, Texas – read on.
(3) Unlike many of his countrymen, however, his family said Berhe stayed put in Sudan while he tried to find a safer route to the west than the hellish route through the Sahara and across the Mediterranean.
(4) The call to prayer blares out five times a day from a multitude of speakers across the city, some melodic others hellish.
(5) Reading it now, the subtext says, "If I came through that hellish experience and my whole shitty life without anti-depressants, which don't work anyway, you should be able to cope without them".
(6) "Navalny carefully distanced himself from the shrill, old-guard western-friendly liberals – 'hellish, insane, crazy mass of the leftovers and bread crusts of the democracy movement of the 80s', he called them – who simply participated in Putin's cult of personality in reverse."
(7) Many families speak of their gratitude to police family liaison officers, whose job is to escort them to court and to try and shield them through a hellish time.
(8) The Richmond Park byelection and prospects for a progressive alliance | Letters Read more “But that would still be hellishly difficult,” he insists.
(9) Qasr-el-Aini was almost a hellish experience, with cars honking the whole time.
(10) Save us from the great peeling monster,” you would cry, as Trump screamed from his hellish peel-pit: “The skin is not the best bit!
(11) This rule was the main source of the formation of very long queues under the sun – people had to line up for hours and hours on a daily basis in the hellish hot weather of Manus island for just having food.
(12) Amnesty’s report, based on interviews with dozens of survivors, described the treatment of migrants by traffickers as “hellish” and warned that hundreds – possibly thousands – may have perished because of the “disastrous consequences” of Thailand’s crackdown.
(13) Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we are filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” said Rupert Colville, the UN’s human rights spokesman, before the ceasefire deal emerged.
(14) "For me personally, there have been several months when it has been hellish, but during that process I've actually been very well supported by a raft of very good friends," Flowers told the BBC.
(15) We Americans have gone from one hellish Christmas to the next, and brave protesters have been occupying malls and interrupting shoppers’ business as usual.
(16) The first female leader of CAR, and only the third in Africa, has inherited a hellish legacy that leaves her trying pull the country back from the brink of civil war.
(17) Recently he used an interview to slag off a whole bunch of hellish people, namely spendy Russians.
(18) That kind of behaviour can be just as bad as physical abuse if someone is living in a hellish situation day-in, day-out.
(19) "While this hellish day signalled the end of the 160 million-year reign of the dinosaurs, it turned out to be a great day for mammals, who had lived in the shadow of the dinosaurs prior to this event."
(20) Perhaps this is unsurprising: Tito's 35 years in power now seem like a golden plateau of peace between two hellish abysses of exterminatory inter-ethnic chauvinism.
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.