transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsti-j(ē-)ən ]
adjective
Usage: often capitalized
Etymology: Latin stygius, from Greek stygios, from Styg-, Styx Styx
Date: 1513
1. : of or relating to the river Styx
2. : extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding
the stygian blackness of the cave