Question

stygian When the power went out in the building, the halls and stairwells were plunged in stygian darkness. ˈstɪʤiən

Accepted Answer

Extremely dark, dank, gloomy, and forbidding. The Greek underworld of Hades was cold and dark, rather than blazing like the Christian image of Hell. The river Styx, whose name meant “hateful” in Greek, was the chief river of the underground, and the souls of the dead were ferried across its poisonous waters into Hades by the boatman Charon. The Styx was so terrible that even the gods swore by its name in their most solemn oaths. The name Stygia, borrowed from stygian, is used for a country in fantasy games today; but a stygian atmosphere, a stygian tunnel, stygian darkness, and so on, still describe the dreary cheerlessness of the Greek underworld

word	stygian
definition	Extremely dark, dank, gloomy, and forbidding.
eg_sentence	When the power went out in the building, the halls and stairwells were plunged in stygian darkness.
explanation	The Greek underworld of Hades was cold and dark, rather than blazing like the Christian image of Hell. The river Styx, whose name meant “hateful” in Greek, was the chief river of the underground, and the souls of the dead were ferried across its poisonous waters into Hades by the boatman Charon. The Styx was so terrible that even the gods swore by its name in their most solemn oaths. The name Stygia, borrowed from stygian, is used for a country in fantasy games today; but a stygian atmosphere, a stygian tunnel, stygian darkness, and so on, still describe the dreary cheerlessness of the Greek underworld
IPA	ˈstɪʤiən

Stygian Dark Greek Underworld Hades River Extremely Dank