(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.
Styx
Definition:
(n.) The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colbeck said the listed area will still retain “high value tall forests and giant trees in the Weld-Snowy Range, Huon Picton, the Great Western Tiers and the Styx-Tyenna regions".
(2) Houston Rockets (16) The Rockets are trying to recruit Kevin Durant, which is just a depressing idea all around, like if Styx tried to recruit Jimi Hendrix.
(3) From the far side of the Styx I'll look back on it with awe.
(4) Three apparent chemotypes of the marine sponge Myrmekioderma styx exist.
(5) Both resident and introduced dogs may have contributed to the infective patterns in the Styx Valley.Treatment with nitroscanate was continued monthly in the Styx Valley and niclosamide was used in the remainder of the County for a further 3 years.
(6) Macronuclear DNA synthesis occupies a substantial part of the interdivision interval, and micronuclear DNA synthesis in Styx sp.
(7) Greek mythology relates that the legendary warrior Achilles was made invincible by his mother Thetis, who dipped him in the River Styx while holding him by his heel.
(8) Four new oxygenated diterpenes 1-4 were isolated from the Caribbean sponge Myrmekioderma styx.
(9) The synthesis of DNA in two hypotrichous ciliates, Styx sp.
(10) The museum is built on sloping ground that runs down to the river Nervión, a vile-looking creek that must be the most gloomy stretch of water after the Styx.
(11) However, one "breakdown" occurred and this was almost certainly autochthonous.Comparisons with an earlier period when arecoline surveillance was used in the Styx Valley, indicate that the present evidence favours a drug-orientated treatment programme of the definitive host for the control of cysticercosis.
(12) The modification included tall eucalypt forests in the Styx, Florentine and Weld valleys.
(13) The extension to Tasmania’s world heritage region, which includes areas such as the Styx and Florentine, was approved by then environment minister Tony Burke earlier this year.
(14) Surrounded by glass panels and comfortable limestone walls, they are missing the best view of the museum, which is from the far side of the river, a Styx with a matchless prospect and the promise of a return trip.