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    stygian

    stygian - Dictionary definition and meaning for word stygian

    Definition
    (adj) hellish
    Example Sentence
    • Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn
    Definition
    (adj) dark and dismal as of the rivers Acheron and Styx in Hades
    Synonyms : acheronian , acherontic
    Example Sentence
    • in the depths of an Acheronian forest
    • upon those roseate lips a Stygian hue
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stygian

stygian... think it as one living in a sty(pen for pigs) .. it is expected to be be disgusting and therefore dark or dismal

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stygian sounds like sky + agyan. i.e., hell.

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Stygian,rhymes with Contagion(spreading of disease) which is DEATHLY,GLOOMY and no doubt HELLISH,those who fall in trap of that.

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Angelina Jolie as GIA(the model.. google it). Gia had a tragic career.Her favourite spot to snort cocaine was in a pig STY and that made her burn like HELL on the Inside.

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The main river that flows in HELL is STYX...hell is a very dark and gloomy place.

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Sounds like "stitch you in!" Imagine being stitched into a body bag and thrown in a dark and dismal pit!

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sounds like stingy. Rahul was a stingy pesron. He was always in gloom whenever he spend money

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jinko STYle ka GIAN(knowledge) nahi hota,woh stygian hote hain

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Sky+Agun=hell.

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i knew an agyaani that thought hell was in sky, and heaven was below us

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Satan giant lives in gloomy and dark place

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"The darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it." Scrooge's quarters were dark because he was so stingy.

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Sky gone...so its turned dark and gloomy

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