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語源

From Latin stygius, from Ancient Greek Στύγιος (Stúgios, “relating to Styx”), from Στύξ (Stúx, “Styx, chief river of underworld”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪd͡ʒ.i.ən/

形容詞

stygian (comparative more stygian, superlative most stygian)

1. Alternative form of Stygian (“of または relating to the river Styx”)
2. (literary) Dark and gloomy.
   • 1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886; republished as The Gods of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1918, OCLC 2775350, page 184:

     The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye […]

3. (literary) Infernal or hellish.
4. (vision, of a perceived color) Having a luminosity below 0%.

上位語

(color):

• chimerical

等位語

(color):

• hyperbolic
• self-luminous

使用する際の注意点

• See also Stygian, which means "of, by or relating to the river Styx".