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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: stygius, from Greek, from Styx river in ancient Greek stories which people cross over when they die

Stygian

 adjective
     
Sty‧gi‧an [usually before noun] literary
unpleasantly dark, and making you feel nervous or afraid:
the Stygian gloom
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