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Stygian vs Sunless - What's the difference?

stygian | sunless | Related terms |

Stygian is a related term of sunless.


As adjectives the difference between stygian and sunless

is that stygian is of, by or relating to the river styx while sunless is without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.

stygian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Dark and gloomy.
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  • Infernal or hellish.

    • Usage notes

    * See also (m), which means "of, by or relating to the river Styx".

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    sunless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without the sun or sunshine; shaded; shadowed.
  • * 1816 , , Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment) :
    • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
    A stately pleasure dome decree:
    Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
    Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.
  • (figuratively) Dreary, cheerless.
  • * 1857 , , The Professor , ch. 18:
    • When I first saw her, her countenance was sunless , her complexion colourless; she looked like one who had no source of enjoyment, no store of bliss anywhere in the world.

    Derived terms

    * sunlessly * sunlessness

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